Charles McGonigal, an FBI agent who “investigated” the false claims that President Donald Trump’s campaign had ties to Russia in 2016, is changing his tune.
A former senior FBI counterintelligence official, who led the Trump-Russia probe, has been arrested for colluding with a Russian oligarch to avoid US sanctions, according to prosecutors.
The former head of counterintelligence for the FBI’s New York City office has been arrested on charges of money laundering and violating Russian sanctions, prosecutors have announced.
Links have begun to emerge between Russia and an ex-FBI agent who played a key role in the Bureau’s probe into the debunked allegations of “Russian collusion” by President Donald Trump’s 2016 campaign.