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Ex-F.B.I. Official in Talks to Resolve Charges of Working for Oligarch posted at 13:03:51 UTC   via   nytimes.com Once the F.B.I.’s top counterintelligence official in New York City, Charles F. McGonigal was charged with concealing contacts with foreign nationals. The arrest of Charles McGonigal shocked colleagues who had worked with him on some of the Federal Bureau of Investigation’s most sensitive cases in recent years.Credit...Hiroko Masuike/The New York Times A former senior F.B.I. official is in talks to resolve criminal charges in two separate indictments, including entering a possible guilty plea as early as next week in a case involving accusations that he worked for a Russian oligarch, according to a public filing and statements by his lawyer in court. Charles F. McGonigal, who retired in 2018 as the counterintelligence chief in the F.B.I.’s New York field office, one of the agency’s most sensitive posts, has been accused by federal prosecutors in New York of  v...

Left: Reporter Scott Stedman is seen in a fundraising video for his defense against a defamation lawsuit brought by a British businessman (via GoFundMe video screengrab). Right: Mark Rossini is seen during an appearance on Newsmax in 2016 (via YouTube screengrab). FBI Investigates its own former agents   Mark Rossini ,  Charles McGonigal ,  Richard Frankel ,  and likely others, who worked for   Russian oligarchs   Deripaska   &  Rybolovlev ,  via the mysterious Walter Soriano ,  the subject of the Senate Intelligence Committee Report ,  who is alleged to be the  possible nexus between   Putin & Trump . - Google Search   See also:  Puerto Rico – Wanda Vázquez Garced – News Review  –  RSS   #WandaVazquez – The Journalistic Investigation In Tweets

5:42 PM 10/7/2019 NYTIMES.COM Two Candidates, Two Investigations, One Deeply Flawed Agency With “Deep State,” James B. Stewart adds his voice to the conversation  Michael Novakhov 1 min  ·  The New York Times  ·  NONFICTION Two Candidates, Two Investigations, One Deeply Flawed Agency Image CreditCreditJoan Wong. Photograph from John Lund/Getty Images By Jonathan Chait Oct. 7, 2019, 5:00 p.m. ET DEEP STATE Trump, the FBI, and the Rule of Law By James B. Stewart During the 2016 presidential election, one of the two major candidates labored under the shadow of a criminal investigation by the F.B.I. That candidate was Hillary Clinton. As we now know, though voters had little reason to apprehend it at the time, there were actually two investigations underway — and, while the probe into Clinton’s mishandling of emails played out in public, the more serious probe of Donald Trump’s secret political and financi...