Tag: Charles McGonigal

Feds’ Foreign-Corruption Double Standard: They Protected Bidens Even as They Bore Down on Trumpworld

At the same time that Department of Justice officials were using spying and corruption statutes to aggressively pursue Donald Trump’s allies based on what turned out to be rumor and innuendo, they declined to use those same laws to investigate evidence of wrongdoing involving Biden family members and one of their corrupt Chinese business partners,…


The Indictment of Charles McGonigal

Commentary One evening in May 2017, Charles “Charlie” McGonigal was about to take the stage to give a talk to the Foreign Policy Association when he learned that less than four months into his presidency, Donald Trump had fired FBI Director James Comey. At the time, McGonigal was one of the most senior officials in…


Plot Twist: Ex-FBI Agent Involved in Trump-Russia Probe ARRESTED For Violating Russia Sanctions | Facts Matter

One of the FBI special agents that spent years investigating alleged Trump-Russia collusion was himself just indicted for Russian collusion. The FBI agent’s name is Charles McGonigal, and the charges against him include, among many other things, laundering money for and doing the bidding of a sanctioned Russian billionaire named Oleg Deripaska. McGonigal was allegedly…


Ex-FBI Agent Charged With Working for Russian Oligarch Played Role in Trump-Russia Investigation

Charles McGonigal, a former FBI agent who was arrested on Monday for alleged ties to a Russian oligarch, was one of the agents who played a role in investigating now-discredited allegations of collusion between Donald Trump’s 2016 presidential campaign and the Russian government. On Monday, the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) announced it had arrested…