As Mr. Faddis explained in an article for AND Magazine, McGonigal took almost a quarter of a million dollars from a former Albanian intelligence officer. Albania has historically been a close partner of Communist China. The Albanian who paid McGonigal was a guy named Agron Neza. Neza worked for CEFC China Energy and subsequently brought into the relationship another Albanian named Dorian Ducka who also worked for CEFC China Energy. At one point in May of 2017, in fact, Ducka was photographed standing with CEFC China Energy chairman Ye Jianming.
Agron Neza had immigrated to New Jersey from Albania, where, one indictment says, "he had been an employee of an Albanian intelligence agency several decades earlier." One of the federal indictments against McGonigal said Neza gave him $225,000 in cash, including an $80,000 payment that coincided with the date when McGonigal’s mistress said she saw a bag full of bundled bills in McGonigal's apartment. Strangely, Neza, who was identified in an indictment only as Person A, was not accused of any wrongdoing.
CEFC China Energy was a Chinese intelligence front company. It existed not to conduct legitimate commercial business but to buy influence. It was part of China’s elite capture operations worldwide. CEFC China Energy was also in direct contact with Hunter Biden.
Ye Jianming famously gave Hunter a 3.16-carat diamond estimated to be worth $80,000 in February 2017. Ye also put Hunter on a $1 million “legal retainer” in mid-2017. Hunter and Jim Biden ultimately received at least $6 million from CEFC. Hunter famously leased office space in Georgetown to share with CEFC officials. He also rented an office for Joe Biden at the same location and got Joe his own set of keys.
Hunter set up shop just up the river from the nation’s capital with Chinese spies.
One of Hunter’s key CEFC contacts was Patrick Ho. Hunter famously referred to Ho as the “f-ing spy chief of China”. The FBI investigated Ho for buying African officials while on U.S. soil. In November of 2017 when Ho returned from a trip to China, he was arrested by the FBI and charged. He was subsequently convicted and sent to prison in the United States.
The FBI agents who arrested Ho worked for McGonigal. As head of counterintelligence in New York McGonigal ran the investigation that led the FBI to Ho. In the course of that investigation, McGonigal’s people also uncovered Ho’s contacts with Hunter Biden and the almost textbook influence-buying scheme the Chinese were running targeting the Bidens. The FBI coverage included monitoring of the wire transfers from CEFC to the Bidens. The FBI knew that a Chinese intelligence front company was paying the then Vice-President’s son and brother.
The payments from CEFC to the Bidens, earmarked as “consulting fees," raised so many red flags at Wells Fargo and other banks that they notified the Treasury Department they had concerns about possible money laundering and other financial crimes. Treasury, in turn, generated 150 Suspicious Activity Reports related to the financial transactions.
In a May 2017 meeting at a Beverly Hills hotel, Joe Biden discussed the CEFC venture with Hunter's business associate Tony Bobulinski. An email that same month described the “big guy” getting a 10% cut of the CEFC money. Bobulinski has confirmed Joe Biden was the “big guy.” An October 2017 email, moreover, identifies the former vice president as a participant in a call about CEFC’s plans to purchase U.S. natural gas.
Ho’s first call from jail was to James Biden. The call was made less than 10 minutes after agents read Ho his Miranda rights.
And, yet, even as the FBI and DOJ took Ho to trial they moved aggressively to cover up any evidence of CEFC’s contacts with Hunter and the Biden crime family. In fact, Hunter’s name was actually redacted from court exhibits introduced during the prosecution of Ho. This while the DOJ attorneys were saying directly to the court that Ho was “the person who flies around the world paying bribes to advance the interest of the oil company [CEFC China Energy],” according to hearing transcripts.
The FBI raided and searched Ho’s office. They never went anywhere near Hunter Biden’s office, which at the time was about ten minutes away. The FBI took Ho’s computers, phones, and records. They found mountains of evidence regarding CEFC’s contacts with the Bidens. They exploited none of the evidence implicating the Bidens in possible espionage on behalf of a foreign power.
All of this occurred while McGonigal was in charge of the investigation and, we now know, taking money from CEFC, the target of the investigation.
As the Business Insider observed, to write McGonigal off as a case of greed and not espionage is to misunderstand how foreign influence works. It doesn't have to be greed or espionage. It can be both.
What’s even more interesting is the connection with another figure in the Obamagate Conspiracy (formerly known as the Trump-Russia Hoax) Oleg Deripaska, a sanctioned Russian oligarch.
Much of the media coverage, and one of the McGonigal indictments, alleged the FBI spy hunter was brought down by the discovery of payments allegedly traced back to Deripaska. Prosecutors accused McGonigal of cultivating a relationship with Deripaska while still working for the FBI, by doing a favor for the daughter of one of Deripaska's subordinates. "McGonigal traveled to meet Deripaska and others at Deripaska's residence in London, and in Vienna," one indictment says, though it does not specify when. Former Russian diplomat Sergey Shestakov is said to have introduced McGonigal to Deripaska's circle. He is also alleged to have violated US sanctions by partnering with McGonigal on a project to investigate one of Deripaska's rivals, a contract that paid $41,790 a month.
In the end, McGonigal goes down for allegedly working for Deripaska, except the bagman targeting McGonigal and the Bidens, Agron Neza, was working for the Communist Chinese elite capture vehicle CEFC China Energy, and that case seemingly ended with the Patrick Ho’s conviction for buying African officials while on U.S. soil.
So, buying African officials on U.S. soil gets Ho indicted and convicted, but buying the Bidens and McGonigal on U.S. soil gets buried.
While CEFC’s Patrick Ho and Charles McGonigal both ended up in prison, they have apparently remained silent on the CEFC-Biden connection. Tellingly, the FBI and Department of Justice have refused to follow the mountain of Biden-related evidence contained in Ho’s electronic devices, Hunter’s laptop and McGonigal’s burner phone.
- Joe Biden administration
- Hunter Biden
- Intelligence Agencies
- Sam Faddis
- Chinese Communism
- FBI spy hunter Charles McGonigal
- Agron Neza
- CEFC China Energy
- Dorian Ducka
- Ye Jianming
- Jim Biden
- Patrick Ho
- FBI
- red flags
- Tony Bobulinski
- Big Guy
- Oleg Deripaska
