A former top FBI official who worked on the probe into possible collusion by Russia and President Donald Trump was arrested Saturday over his connections to a Russian oligarch. See the potential biases and similarities in abc, nro and bbcworld:
McGonigal is one of the highest ranking former FBI officials ever charged with a crime. He retired from the agency in 2018. In 2017, he was among the first FBI agents to learn of a conversation between a Trump campaign adviser and a foreign diplomat about Hillary Clinton’s emails. The moment was a key catalyst for the
, which ultimately found none. Deripaska is one of Russia's wealthiest oligarchs, and was president of energy company En+ Group and United Company Rusal, the world's second largest aluminum company, before leaving both posts in 2018.McGonical's arrest was a top story from sources across the political spectrum. Left- and center-rated sources generally focused less on his involvement in the Trump-Russia probe than right-rated sources did.
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