This is about the US national police, the FBI. A particular representative, one Charles McGonigal, has been indicted for sanctions violations and money laundering, all regarding a Russian Oligarch. But this isn't just any FBI guy, McGonigal has held top counterintel posts.
Here, from the
NY Times: "A former senior F.B.I. official who oversaw some of its most secret and sensitive counterintelligence investigations in New York was accused on Monday of taking money from a former Albanian intelligence employee and from a representative of a Russian oligarch."
From same story: "Before he retired in 2018, Mr. McGonigal had been the special agent in charge of the F.B.I.’s counterintelligence division in New York. In that post, he supervised investigations of Russian oligarchs, including Oleg V. Deripaska, the oligarch whom the U.S. attorney’s office in Manhattan on Monday charged him with aiding."
And further, the Times notes "Mr. McGonigal’s arrest shocked former colleagues. They said he primarily investigated Russian counterintelligence and espionage during his lengthy career."
Wonder how long he's been dirty? Possibly in 2016 when he headed the probe into the Trump campaign-Russia connection? Deripaska was in the middle of all that. Also, he was in that job when
FBI guys leaked dirt on Hillary, "forcing" Comey to announce a "reopened" investigation just before the election. This might blow a pretty big lid off of some things--if we're lucky.
Another link from when this was just a ticking bomb:
https://www.businessinsider.com/excl...ripaska-2022-9