Putting it here because a post about him is upthread.
Today was the sentencing hearing of McGonigal, the ex-FBI Special Agent in Charge who plead guilty to taking money from Oleg Derepaska (a Russian oligarch who'd been sanctioned by the US).
DOJ asked for the max, 60 months. Defense wanted...no time. Judge gave him 50 months. He apparently has charges in DC? based on context clues in this thread.
(Inner City Press is a good follow for super detailed info for cases in NYC)
Merrick Garland's Justice Department
Merrick Garland's Justice Department
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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline wrote: For those of us who called out @TheJusticeDept for dragging its feet on prosecuting Trump and even saying Merrick Garland was the wrong man for the job, we were right. Watch this.
For those who vehemently pushed back, saying that justice moves slow, and we needed to give Merrick Garland time to do his work. You were wrong. Watch this.
I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again, Merrick Garland didn’t really get started until the January 6 Committee presented its case and public pressure was on. All hands should have been on deck for this on day one!
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Absolutely correct. It would be like Robert Jackson setting up the Nuremberg Trials and prosecuting the privates and corporals in the concentration camps, while all the SS murderous leadership were allowed to move about Germany and continue to stir up the populace with nazi propaganda.
Part of the problem is MSNBC. Its prime time lineup includes numerous apologists for Garland; primarily prosecutors who worked for or with him and who are too timid to tell the truth: Merrick Garland is a disaster as Attorney General. The worst are Neal Katyal and Andrew Weissman. They are obviously disqualified to give unbiased opinions, and yet they continue to go on and on praising Garland. Sadly, Lawrence O'Donnell and the other hosts are too fearful and, frankly, incompetent to push back, even a little.
Remember when, on day one I said MSNBC's love affair with fraudster-lawyer Michael Avenatti was outrageous and that he was a terrible lawyer and human being? This too.
History will show Garland to have been a failure as AG and his apologists failures as pundits.
Part of the problem is MSNBC. Its prime time lineup includes numerous apologists for Garland; primarily prosecutors who worked for or with him and who are too timid to tell the truth: Merrick Garland is a disaster as Attorney General. The worst are Neal Katyal and Andrew Weissman. They are obviously disqualified to give unbiased opinions, and yet they continue to go on and on praising Garland. Sadly, Lawrence O'Donnell and the other hosts are too fearful and, frankly, incompetent to push back, even a little.
Remember when, on day one I said MSNBC's love affair with fraudster-lawyer Michael Avenatti was outrageous and that he was a terrible lawyer and human being? This too.
History will show Garland to have been a failure as AG and his apologists failures as pundits.
Neither disbarred nor disciplined after representing President Barack Obama. 
Merrick Garland's Justice Department
I guess much of it is simply thinking "Mitch McConnell stopped him being on SCOTUS, therefore he must be eternally and complexly good in everything. Therefore we must praise him because black and white yo."
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