{"id":1821361,"date":"2023-01-24T07:34:33","date_gmt":"2023-01-24T12:34:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1821361"},"modified":"2023-01-24T08:57:18","modified_gmt":"2023-01-24T13:57:18","slug":"ex-fbi-official-who-helped-launch-crossfire-hurricane-charged-with-laundry-list-of-crimes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/ex-fbi-official-who-helped-launch-crossfire-hurricane-charged-with-laundry-list-of-crimes\/","title":{"rendered":"Ex-FBI Official Who Helped Launch Crossfire Hurricane Charged With Laundry List Of Crimes"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">26<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fex-fbi-official-who-helped-launch-crossfire-hurricane-charged-with-laundry-list-of-crimes%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1821361&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>The Department of Justice has unsealed two indictments against Charles McGonigal on Monday. He was a former FBI chief who was involved in the decision of Crossfire Hurricane to investigate then-Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump.<\/p>\n<p>Here are six takeaways from yesterday\u2019s news.<\/p>\n<p>1. McGonigal Charged with Conspiring with Russian Interpreter to Launder Money \u2014 and More.<\/p>\n<p>Monday morning brought breaking <a href=\"https:\/\/www.justice.gov\/usao-sdny\/pr\/former-special-agent-charge-new-york-fbi-counterintelligence-division-charged-violating\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">news<\/a> that the U.S. attorney\u2019s office for the Southern District of New York had unsealed a five-count <a href=\"https:\/\/www.justice.gov\/usao-sdny\/press-release\/file\/1563476\/download\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">indictment<\/a> McGonigal, Sergey Shestakov were charged with violating the International Emergency Economic Powers Act (IEEPA) and conspiring to launder funds. Shestakov was also accused by the FBI of lying to them.<\/p>\n<p>McGonigal, the indictment stated, was previously a \u201csenior official\u201d Working as a counterintelligence agent, counter-espionage and organized crime specialist in the FBI. From 2016 until his retirement in 2018, McGonigal was the special agent in charge of the Counterintelligence Division of the FBI\u2019s New York Field Office, a role in which he supervised and investigated Russian oligarchs, according to the indictment.<\/p>\n<p>Shestakov&#8217;s part is described as an &#8220;amazing&#8221; person. \u201cformer Soviet and Russian diplomat,\u201d He was in the same position from 1979 to 1993, when he retired. According to the press release, Shestakov is now a U.S. citizen. \u201cmore recently served as an interpreter for United States federal courts and prosecutors.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>McGonigal &amp; Shestakov were charged with violating sanctions imposed by the United States upon Oleg Deripaska. This was in violation the IEEPA. The indictment specifically stated that the two were accused of violating the sanctions imposed by the United States on Oleg Deripaska, a Russian oligarch, in violation of the IEEPA. \u201cagreed to and did investigate a rival oligarch of Deripaska in return for concealed payment from Deripaska.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>According to Monday\u2019s press release, McGonigal and Shestakov negotiated with a representative of Deripaska, identified as Agent-1 in the indictment, \u201cto conceal Deripaska\u2019s involvement\u201d In the relationship \u201cby, among other means, not directly naming Deripaska in electronic communications,\u201d using instead various nicknames, such as \u201cthe big guy.\u201d McGonigal and Shestakov were also suspected to have used the drug. \u201cshell companies,\u201d Deripaska to conceal the payments.<\/p>\n<p>McGonigal allegedly first met Deripaska\u2019s representative, Agent-1, while still employed by the FBI, but then in the spring of 2021, after McGonigal had retired from the bureau, he was allegedly solicited to work directly for Deripaska. The indictment stated that Deripaska hired McGonigal for the investigation of a second Russian oligarch, with whom Deripaska was involved in a dispute over control of a Russian company. Deripaska was alleged to have agreed to pay McGonigal $51,280 and then monthly payments totaling $41,790. The payments were made to a New Jersey company, which later transferred the funds over to McGonigal or Shestakov.<\/p>\n<p>The activities among McGonigal, Shestakov, and Deripaska\u2019s intermediaries \u201clargely\u201d ceased, according to the indictment, upon the FBI executing search warrants and seizing McGonigal and Shestakov\u2019s electronic devices on Nov. 21, 2021. Shestakov allegedly lied shortly before the FBI executed the warrant.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Monday&#8217;s news is a body blow to the FBI, which already has two black eyes from the last seven years of scandals.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":499,"featured_media":1898006,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"Ex-FBI Official Who Helped Launch Crossfire Hurricane Charged With Laundry List Of Crimes","footnotes":""},"categories":[546],"tags":[3649,5999,16198,11460,5954,16197,4706,8482,5594,4808],"class_list":["post-1821361","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-federalist","tag-charged","tag-crimes","tag-crossfire","tag-ex-fbi","tag-helped","tag-hurricane","tag-launch","tag-laundry","tag-list","tag-official"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"Ex-FBI Official Who Helped Launch Crossfire Hurricane Charged With Laundry List Of Crimes","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1821361","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/499"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1821361"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1821361\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1898006"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1821361"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1821361"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1821361"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}