Cornay is just a pawn, but most importantly; a stepping stone to the bigger items that really matter.
But first:
A gentlemanly hat tip to George Santayana, who wrote:
"Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it" <-- Frankly, I'm glad the Dems know nothing about this blind spot of theirs.
Thankfully, the Dems stealing the election in 2020 is actually working out for us. As you may recall, TRUMP was a political neophyte in 2016-2017, elected into a festering swamp of nepotistic and self-enriching swamp of critters.
A total Who's Who of corrupt Politburo players.
On top of that, the Dems unleashed untold cannons of Lawfare, while still shielding their many swamp monsters. It started even before the 2016 election with Hillary Clinton and finished the year with a basement meeting of the White House, driven by O'Bama, et al. Thusly creating the
Muh Russia, Russia, Russia tales from the crypt for the next several years.
The lawfare careened throughout the swamp for years, at great expense to the tax payers and, of course, Trump.
Anyone recollect this item? He got 4 years for it.
Ex-FBI agent Charles McGonigal sentenced for helping Russian oligarch
14 December 2023 Madeline HalpertBBC News, New York
A former top FBI agent has been sentenced to over four years in prison for helping a Russian oligarch spy on a rival.
Charles McGonigal, 55, pleaded guilty in August to one count of conspiring to launder money.
McGonigal is one of the highest-ranking FBI agents to ever be charged with a crime.
He is also accused of hiding $225,000 (£176,000) in payments from an Albanian agent while still working for the FBI.
Prosecutors had asked for five years in prison.
Before his sentence was handed down on Thursday in New York, McGonigal expressed regret over his actions.
"I committed a felony and as a former FBI special agent it causes me extreme emotional and physical pain," he told Judge Jennifer Rearden, according to ABC News. "I stand before you today with a deep sense of remorse."
Ms Rearden said McGonigal had made "extraordinary contributions" through his counter-espionage work, but called his crimes "extraordinarily serious".
McGonigal was the special agent in charge of the FBI's counterintelligence division in New York before retiring in 2018. In that role, he was tasked with investigating Russian oligarchs.
Prosecutors say he and former Russian diplomat Sergey Shestakov violated US sanctions by agreeing to provide services to Russian billionaire and industrialist Oleg Deripaska.
The US sanctioned Mr Deripaska in 2018 after accusing him and several other Russian oligarchs and officials of "malign activity around the globe".
Prosecutors alleged the two men agreed to help Mr Deripaska get his sanctions removed. They also promised to investigate a rival oligarch, Vladimir Potanin.
US charges ex-FBI agent with violating Russia sanctions
The men and an associate of Mr Deripaska allegedly used shell companies to send and receive payments from Mr Deripaska.
In August, McGonigal admitted to a judge that he had investigated Mr Potanin in an effort to add him to the sanctions list.
He told the court he was "deeply remorseful" for his actions.
"I take full responsibility and never intended to hurt the US, FBI or my family," he said, according to local New York outlets.
After being arrested in January, the ex-FBI agent had initially pleaded not guilty before later reversing his plea.
In court filings, prosecutors said McGonigal "abused the skills and influence his country entrusted him with by secretly working for the very threats he had previously protected it against".
"No one knew better the gravity of McGonigal's crimes than McGonigal himself," they wrote...
As it relates to Comey; He ain't the first, nor the last (I hope, I hope)
However, DJT 47 is not going to lower himself to underhanded lawfare, like they did in NY by creating a temporary law to extend the Statute of Limitations - just to charge Trump. Trump prefers to do the battles in the open, so that everyone has a chance to see it all, if their media sources permit, that is. Thank goodness for Social Media and the death rattle of old guard media.
As it relates to Comey; Statute of Limitations were running out, so they had to act. As we now know, the EDVA is a festering snake pit, which is gumming up the works. You can read about it
Here and
Here. But Comey would make for two charged conspirators, just from the FBI. Can you say RICO?
BTW: The two "Heres" above are going to be sequestered in the case, as Comey's initial defense appears to be to throw the whole thing out because the EDVA is requesting more time - because it was so infested with swamp rats and they are having to bring in other personnel from elsewhere to get up to speed.
Will they able to beat the clock on Statute of Limitations? Realistically, not as cleanly as we might prefer. But RICO and Sedition don't have a time limit and anything that might come from the Cornay trial retains admissibility for other cases, i.e. half a loaf is better than no loaf. It might just be the whole loaf that sinks his boat and perhaps the 51 current and former intel agents and perhaps, all the way up the chain to the Don, i.e. ring leader - O'Bama.
There is one other stigma attached to Comey that many overlook:
Nobody likes a dirty cop.
They are the lowest of low lifes and overall the worst of the worst.
Stay tuned and keep your eyes on the prizes from this pinata.