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While the prime minister of Albania, Edi Rama, has traveled to New York for the meeting of the United Nations Security Council, American justice is under pressure to make transparency on a corruption issue at the highest levels, where Rama is thought to have had the influence of his.
It is about the investigation of Charles McGonigal, the former director of the FBI office in New York, who will still be in negotiations with American prosecutors for a lower sentence in connection with the meetings in Albania in the years 2017- 2018 and the money he received from the former employee of SHISH, Agron Neza.
These days, Charles McGonigal's name was mentioned again in the media after Republican Congressman Jim Jordan, chairman of the House Judiciary Committee, sent a letter to FBI Director Christopher Wray, raising doubts that important facts about McGonigal are being are kept secret.
" McGonigal's serious misconduct as a high-level FBI official, and the possibility that McGonigal will receive a generous plea deal from the Justice Department in both cases, raise significant concerns that the FBI and State Department are trying conceal the true extent of McGonigal's transgressions in an effort to avoid further damaging the Bureau's reputation, " the congressman wrote in his letter to FBI leaders.
McGonigal's involvement in the corruption scandal was shocking to his colleagues and subordinates. Before the scandal broke out, they had seen in him the strict and experienced agent who ran the office with severity. But until now, McGonigal has admitted that he put himself in the service of Russian oligarch Oleg Deripaska to benefit about 17 thousand dollars, using the infrastructure that enabled the FBI.
The issue is more complicated in Albania. The alleged benefits are thought to have been much more. In the FBI investigative file, it is claimed that McGonigal received 225 thousand dollars from Agron Neza, after secret visits to Albania, where there was talk about oil company licenses and the crackdown on the Albanian opposition.
Despite reports in the US media. Rama appeared 100% focused on the United Nations Security Council meeting. He distributed a video statement sitting in the chair where he will chair the meeting of the Security Council, which he called the most important since the Ukraine-Russia war started. He then appeared in a photo from the UN courtyard texting on his phone, again focused on the Ukraine meeting.
When the investigation into McGonigal began, his ex-girlfriend, Alison Guerrero, said FBI agents showed up at her home to question her about a tip she had made. "They were holding Edi Rama's photo in their hands," Alison said. According to her, Rama and McGonigal often talked on the phone, and even had an expensive dinner at the St George restaurant in New York, for which they were paid about 10 thousand dollars./ Lapsi.al
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