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Belle of the Ranch

Let's talk about an end to the McGonigal saga....

Belle of the Ranch

Belle of the Ranch

Society & Culture

4.91K Ratings

🗓️ 17 December 2023

⏱️ 4 minutes

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Let's talk about an end to the McGonigal saga....

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0:21.0

Well, howdy there internet people, let's go again. So today we are going to talk

0:26.9

about the final chapter in the story of McGogl and how that has all played out because the sentence came

0:37.3

down today. Okay so if you don't remember in this case you have no idea what I'm talking about.

0:45.0

He was the boss of the CI division of the New York Field Office of the FBI. He was the counterintelligence

0:55.0

counterintelligence boss so his job was to catch spies

1:00.0

he was accused

1:02.0

he was accused and pleaded guilty to basically working at the behest of a Russian oligarch, trying

1:12.2

to get him off the sanctions list and stuff like that.

1:16.8

This is a big deal for somebody that held his position.

1:22.4

There wasn't actual espionage as in trading of secrets that

1:26.4

anybody's been able to demonstrate. However, the use of his skills and

1:31.4

former position, all of that stuff weighed into this.

1:35.9

The prosecution asked for 60 months for five years.

1:41.3

His attorneys asked for non-custodial, basically probation. The judge went

1:49.8

through and kind of weighed this and came back with a sentence of 50 months.

1:59.5

That is high for this type of offense, but not ridiculously high and obviously not as much

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