{"id":1826711,"date":"2023-01-27T20:34:44","date_gmt":"2023-01-28T01:34:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1826711"},"modified":"2023-01-27T20:35:20","modified_gmt":"2023-01-28T01:35:20","slug":"spurned-ex-lover-turned-in-top-fbi-official-who-was-later-charged-over-connection-to-russian-oligarch-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/spurned-ex-lover-turned-in-top-fbi-official-who-was-later-charged-over-connection-to-russian-oligarch-report\/","title":{"rendered":"Spurned Ex-Lover Turned In Top FBI Official Who Was Later Charged Over Connection To Russian Oligarch: Report"},"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\">34<\/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%2Fspurned-ex-lover-turned-in-top-fbi-official-who-was-later-charged-over-connection-to-russian-oligarch-report%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=1826711&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-->\n<p data-reader-unique-id=\"1\">A spurned ex-lover of\u00a0Charles McGonigal, former Special Agent In Charge Of The New York <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/topic\/fbi\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">FBI<\/a> Counterintelligence Division, claimed that he turned him into the Bureau after telling her he didn&#8217;t want to leave his wife.<\/p>\n<p>Insider <a href=\"https:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/charles-mcgonigal-fbi-indictment-allison-guerriero-russia-deripaska-spies-nypd-giuliani-2023-1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">reported<\/a> that Allison Guerriero, McGonigal\u2019s apparent lover, discovered a bag full of cash in McGonigal\u2019s New York City apartment, comprised of large denominations, in October 2017. He claimed he won the money playing baseball, which she confronted.<\/p>\n<p>McGonigal told Guerriero that he had\u00a0two high-school-age children and an \u201cex-wife\u201d Back in Maryland, he visited the state a few times per month.<\/p>\n<p>She claims their affair lasted more than a year, and that he spent large sums of money on her.<\/p>\n<p data-reader-unique-id=\"3\">On Monday, the Southern District of New York sealed a five-count Indictment against McGonigal as well as Sergey Shestakov.<\/p>\n<p data-reader-unique-id=\"23\">Two men were accused of conspiring to violate and violate the International Emergency Economic Powers Act (IEEPA).\u201cIEEPA\u201d) and with conspiring to commit money laundering and money laundering. Shestakov was also charged with lying to FBI.<\/p>\n<p data-reader-unique-id=\"24\">McGonigal, who had retired in 2018, was recognized by the DOJ. \u201csupervised and participated in investigations of Russian oligarchs, including Deripaska,\u201d During his time at FBI. Shestakov was a former Soviet diplomat and Russian diplomat. He later moved to America and became a government translator.<\/p>\n<p>One of the most stunning allegations contained in the Insider report was that\u00a0McGonigal allegedly was bribed to open an FBI investigation into a U.S. citizen who lobbied for an opponent of\u00a0the Albanian prime minister.<\/p>\n<p>Guerriero claimed that McGonigal used FBI resources for their relationship, including having sex in one of the Bureau\u2019s vehicles and having a junior-level agent give her rides. He claimed she was\u00a0\u201ccaring, loving, and concerned\u201d While she battled with cancer.<\/p>\n<p>When the two broke up in 2018, she claims that she got an\u00a0anonymous hate note in the mail and that McGonigal later told her that he was married and was not going to leave his wife.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI was shocked,\u201d She spoke. \u201cI was very much in love with him, and I was so hurt.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>She said that she had hit rock bottom, that she began to drink heavily after the breakup, that she then harassed his family, leading to a restraining orders.<\/p>\n<p>One day, after she consumed a large amount of alcohol, she says that she emailed another top FBI official and encouraged him to look into McGonigal\u2019s dealings in Albania.<\/p>\n<p>FBI agents later showed up and interviewed Guerriero over McGonigal\u2019s business dealings, and she later received a grand-jury subpoena requesting communication records and other financial information related to him.<\/p>\n<p data-reader-unique-id=\"25\">The following statement was made by the DOJ when they released the McGonigal indictment:<\/p>\n<blockquote data-reader-unique-id=\"29\">\n<p data-reader-unique-id=\"30\"><em data-reader-unique-id=\"31\">MCGONIGAL, SHESTAKOV, and SHESTAKOV conspired in 2021 to provide services for Deripaska. This was in violation of U.S. Sanctions imposed on Deripaskaska in 2018. MCGONIGAL was negotiating with Deripaska&#8217;s agent. SHESTAKOV and SHESTAKOV then agreed to conduct an investigation into a rival Russian oligarch, in return for hidden payments from Deripaska. As part of their negotiations with Deripaska\u2019s agent, MCGONIGAL, SHESTAKOV, and the agent attempted to conceal Deripaska\u2019s involvement by, among other means, not directly naming Deripaska in electronic communications, using shell companies as counterparties in the contract that outlined the services to be performed, using a forged signature on that contract, and using the same shell companies to send and receive payments from Deripaska.<\/em><\/p>\n<p data-reader-unique-id=\"32\"><em data-reader-unique-id=\"33\">MCGONIGAL AND SHESTAKOV knew their actions violated U.S. Sanctions because, among other things, MCGONIGAL was serving as SAC and received classified information that Deripaska would become part of a list of oligarchs subject to sanctions. MCGONIGAL, SHESTAKOV and SHESTAKOV also worked for Deripaska during a failed attempt to lift the sanctions against Deripaska. In November 2021, when FBI agents questioned SHESTAKOV about the nature of his and MCGONIGAL\u2019s relationship with Deripaska\u2019s agent, SHESTAKOV made false statements in a recorded interview.<\/em><\/p>\n<p data-reader-unique-id=\"34\">U.S. attorney Damian Williams claimed that both men are guilty \u201cshould have known better\u201d And that the Southern District of New York would \u201ccontinue to prosecute those who violate U.S. sanctions enacted in response to Russian belligerence in Ukraine in order to line their own pockets.\u201d<\/p>\n<p data-reader-unique-id=\"35\">The Washington Free Beacon <a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/latest-news\/plot-twist-ex-fbi-agent-involved-in-trump-russia-probe-indicted-over-ties-to-russian-oligarch\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-reader-unique-id=\"36\">reported<\/a> that\u00a0McGonigal was involved with the FBI\u2019s investigation into the Trump campaign\u2019s alleged links to Russia.<\/p>\n<p data-reader-unique-id=\"39\">He was \u201cone of the first\u201d FBI officials to hear the story alleging that George Papadopoulos discussed Hillary Clinton\u2019s emails with an Australian diplomat, the report said. Based on this alleged conversation, the FBI opened an investigation.<\/p>\n<p data-reader-unique-id=\"40\">McGonigal was involved in the FBI\u2019s investigation of Trump campaign adviser Carter Page, the report added.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A spurned ex-lover of\u00a0Charles McGonigal, former Special Agent In Charge Of The New York FBI Counterintelligence Division, allegedly turned him into the Bureau after he told her that he was not going to leave his wife and dumped her. Insider reported that Allison Guerriero, McGonigal\u2019s apparent lover, discovered a bag full of cash in McGonigal\u2019s &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":102,"featured_media":1826714,"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":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[541],"tags":[3649,6742,16776,5591,4808,16123,3819,3965,16775],"class_list":["post-1826711","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-daily-wire","tag-charged","tag-connection","tag-ex-lover","tag-fbi","tag-official","tag-oligarch","tag-report","tag-russian","tag-spurned"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1826711","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\/102"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1826711"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1826711\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1826714"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1826711"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1826711"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1826711"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}