Top FBI Agent Tied to Russia -- and that's not all | Tweets Review: Charles McGonigal, former counterintelligence head in the New York City office of the FBI, is now being investigated for his own ties to Oleg Deripaska
12:58 PM 10/6/2022 - Post Link Top FBI Agent Tied to Russia -- and that's not all Thursday October 6 th , 2022 at 11:32 AM SCFrog 1 Share As the piece says, Charles McGonigal, former counterintelligence head in the New York City office of the FBI, is now being investigated for his own ties to Oleg Deripaska , one of Putin’s favorite industrialists. This story has many, many ramifications. First a bit of background: back in 2019 Deripaska made a deal with Addison (his real name) McConnell to lift sanctions in exchange for building an aluminum mill in Kentucky . At the time skeptics figured this boost to McConnell’s fortunes would last until a few months after the 2020 election, and indeed in early 2021 financing for the mill “unexpectedly” fell through . Imagine that. Second, the NYC office of the FBI was notably lax in investigating trump’s many cons and ties to Russia. Later Michael Sussman, who brought news of questionable ties between a Russian bank and the trump cam