A Voice of America summary article listing some details of the US Attorney's case against Charles McGonigal has sparked a campaign of reactions, mostly related to the pulpit and the media close to it.
The detail used by "Voice of America" ??was the fact that since BIRN was the first to publish Lulzim Basha's lobbying payments on November 22, 2017, and since the article did not mention the Russian connections (because they were later denounced in Mother Jones) then how was possible that on November 25, 2017, Dorian Ducka notified Charles Mcgonigal, and the latter then opened an FBI investigation into the matter based on suspicions of Russian funding.
What the Voice of America presents as a riddle and a mystery is actually an elementary fact, in 2017 Google existed, it was enough to enter the name of "Binniata Trade" into Google and all the companies related to it appeared and of course they appeared and the names of several representatives with Slavic first and last names who are day laborers of Scottish companies who appoint fictitious directors to hide the tracks of companies like Binniata.
These Russian names were found by anyone doing a Google search on November 22, 2017, this is quadruple-proof today as the data is still there with the date of origin.
So the VOA's question about where McGonigal learned the Russian valence can be answered a priori "from Google", but of course the head of the FBI and his network may have had and known much more than that, except for Google- s.
Hashtag.al since the day the article was published in BIRN on November 22, 2017, as well as when "Mother Jones" accused Basha of Russian connections, has hit these claims about Russia in a public way, because they were absolutely unprofessional hints and reports , which grotesquely attributed the ownership of commercial companies to fee-based lawyers who are used as cover to hide the real owners. It doesn't matter if these jurors have Slavic, American or Chinese surnames, they are there to fill the papers, they are nobody and this speculation was an unprecedented shame.
But the grotesque continued with the Voice of America as early as 2019 and in 2021 reporting on this problem highlighting doubts about Russian implications.

The climax was reached in 2022, the time when Berisha and Basha had split wildly with each other and Voice of America published an article "with sources" from the US administration, in which it was said that the Russians paid 500 thousand USD to finance a party politics in Albania.
In this case as well, Hashtag.al hit hard and unequivocally on the speculative reporting with sources that were not known at all, but this time the grotesque reached its peak.
Because unlike before, Berisha and his people supported the thesis of Russian financing because they were interested in tearing Lulzim Basha apart.
There are endless proofs and traces of this political and media sloppiness that happened based on the Voice of America article, while Basha was the target of another campaign implicating him without proof with half-Russian interests.
Today, in 2024, based again on the reports of the Voice of America, the same ones who attacked Basha for Russian funding two years ago, are denouncing the deletion of the file based on the detail (verifiable with Google) that the Voice of America published, after two years ago, they held a public trial against Basha, accusing him of Russian involvement.
These are strong oscillations that show how destabilized the leaders of the pulpit and the media in their favor are in the line of reasoning and in their stance on this issue.
Hashtag.al thankfully has taken the same stance since day 1 on this matter reporting the problems and evidence of an illegal fund injection operation in the US towards Nick Muzin, which was given to justify money laundering investigations, but in no way there was no concrete data or evidence linking this financial operation to any Russian corridor, as Rama's media accused in 2017/2018 and as Rama's and Berisha's media accused in 2022.
These oscillations that continue and repeat in 2024, are in fact indicators that the soup that BIRN reported and then "Mother Jones" and that were amplified more loudly by the Voice of America throughout the 5 years, have also served as a gauge, as a scathing letter that reveals the insanity in the reasoning and attitude of those who are amazed again today by the next VOA write-up.
It is a kind of greedy letter that also reveals the sclerosis of many of today's critics who are based on the Voice of America, because they still have on the Internet the writings of 2022 when they ripped Basha to pieces and accused him of Russian funding, again based on the Voice of America.
In fact, Lulzim Basha has made an unforgivable blunder, a stratospheric idiocy, leaving strong traces of illegal transactions to ensure a flawless photo with Donald Trump in 2017.
This was a blunder and immaturity that I don't think would be used by one's political opponent, or by segments of the State Department that were the first to denounce Basha's transaction through BIRN.
But at least Basha has categorically and consistently denied any alluded connection with the Russians.
While his opponents within the party once defended him in 2017, in 2022 they accused him and the Voice of America of Russian funding, while today in 2024 they rely on the Voice of America again to deny what they themselves have published and trumpeted the alleged Russian connections of Lulzim Basha.
It is enough to list these facts in time to understand that the Voice of America, together with the pulpit and the media around it, with these arbitrary oscillations are more easily justified if they declare themselves with sclerosis or dementia, because otherwise this is pure proof of a charlatanism without limits. / Hashtag.al