"For his egregious violations of the public trust, the government requests that the Court sentence the defendant to 30 months’ incarceration and order him to pay a fine of $95,000"
Hopefully the judge agrees to that and sentences this time to be served CONSECUTIVELY and not CONCURRENTLY with the 50 months he got in the SDNY case.storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.usco…
My favorite part of this submission is the failed scheme to introduce his friend and current GOP Presidential hopeful @NikkiHaley to a couple Bosnians from a pharmaceutical company while she served as the U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations.
The price for setting up this meeting was $500,000.
Exhibit 2
McGonigal took a number of steps to make this meeting happen, but ultimately it never happened.
McGonigal's ex, @AllisonGuerrier , in commenting on this scheme asked a great question,
"‘She’s not a traitor. But I do care that someone who is running for the presidency of this country at a time when we have a convicted traitor who was in the FBI, why isn’t she denouncing him?’"
There are three other sealed filings from Jan 10.
The Times has filed to have them unsealed. Apparently they are Bob's Memo of Law in Support if his 1st Motion to Dismiss + a declaration + exhibits. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.usco…
I was having a look around and noticed something...
None of the defendants have the same set of attorneys, including Bob and Nadine.
"The FBI intends to seek reconsideration and clarification of the November 28, 2023 Memorandum and Opinion"
The FBI want the judge to reconsider his determinations that:
-The "Work Laptop" is a FOIA'able agency record.
-requiring the FBI to prepare and provide Vaughn indexes or produce metadata
If the Court does not reconsider and/or reaffirms its order, then the FBI will argue that the Work Laptop is exempt from FOIA under Exemption 7(A) and that the CD containing images of the Personal Laptop is exempt under both 7(A) and 7(D).
7(A)= could reasonably be expected to interfere with law enforcement proceedings
7(D)= could reasonably be expected to disclose the identity of a confidential source
"the FBI proposes the Court enter a briefing schedule for the FBI’s anticipated motions. The FBI proposes to file its combined motion for reconsideration, or in the alternative, motion for summary judgment on or before February 8, 2024."
I should probably advise the reader that I do not agree with the common sentiment that Guo is a "Take Down The CCP!" good guy who is being wrongfully prosecuted by the Biden DOJ. Not at all.
After going over the filings in this case, another civil case involving Guo, and watching various clips of Guo and Yvette, it is my opinion and the opinion of a few other folks, that they are agents of the Chinese Ministry of State Security who successfully infiltrated MAGA.
They have now been caught by the SDNY in a multiple fraud schemes and I think MAGA would do well to disabuse themselves of the notion the Guo was ever earnestly trying to "Take Down The CCP!"
We went over the new charges this morning on my show, post a clip later, but I have a few minutes right now so might as well thread them out here.
The other thread is worth reading if you are not caught up on the charges against Menendez and others. Items such as cash and gold bars that were presented in the first indictment as payments from his contacts for work he did on behalf of Egypt WERE ALSO payments for the work he did on behalf of Qatar.