The FBI is quick to call people spies, even without properly checking, and at times for politically corrupt reasons, as the world saw in the Russian collusion case that was disproved in Congress. The FBI has knowingly and falsely accused many people of being spies, whom they knew were innocent, such as Martin Luther King Jr and Aretha Franklin, among others.

Oh how the tables have turned. 54-year-old FBI official, Charles McGonigal, is now under criminal investigation for taking bribe money from Russian billionaire Oleg Deripaska, who is a close ally of war criminal Vladimir Putin. McGonigal is formally accused of taking $225,000 in bribe money to remove Deripaska from a U.S. sanctions list, which would enable him to do Putin's bidding via financial transactions and visits in America.

FBI Director Christopher Wray

MSN.com reported, "McGonigal was arrested by agents from the bureau where he had worked for 22 years and where he rose to one of the most important counter-espionage positions in the U.S. government. Given his former role, the investigation was run by FBI agents in Los Angeles and D.C. rather than in New York."

FBI agents are always taking bribes. The agency is absolutely corrupt (FBI Agent Arrested In California And Charged With Falsifying Documents To Cover Up Bribes He Took From Organized Crime and 50 Instances Of FBI Agents Accepting Bribes and FBI Agent Arrested For Accepting A $200,000 Bribe To Derail A Criminal Case The FBI Was Supposed To Be Investigating and Another FBI Agent Caught Taking Bribes To Derail Serious Cases).

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Former senior FBI official accused of working for Russian he investigated

NEW YORK — The FBI’s former top spyhunter in New York was charged Monday with taking secret cash payments of more than $225,000 while overseeing highly sensitive cases, and breaking the law by trying to get Russian billionaire Oleg Deripaska removed from a U.S. sanctions list — accusations that shocked the cloistered world of his fellow high-ranking intelligence officials.

Charles McGonigal, 54, who retired from the FBI in September 2018, was indicted in federal court in Manhattan on charges of money laundering, violating U.S. sanctions and other counts stemming from his alleged ties to Deripaska, an ally of Russian President Vladimir Putin. In his role at the FBI, McGonigal had been tasked with investigating Deripaska, whose own indictment on sanctions-violation charges was unsealed in September.

A second indictment, filed in Washington, accused McGonigal of hiding payments totaling $225,000 that he allegedly received from a New Jersey man employed decades ago by an Albanian intelligence agency. The indictment also accused him of acting to advance that person’s interests.

McGonigal’s alleged crimes may undercut Justice Department efforts to ramp up economic sanctions on wealthy Russians after last year’s invasion of Ukraine. The twin indictments are also a black eye for the FBI, alleging that one of its most senior and trusted intelligence officials accepted large sums of money and undermined the bureau’s overall intelligence-gathering mission...

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