Nearly 25 years ago, FBI agent William McGrath resigned after refusing to follow an order that allegedly would have blown a federal informant’s cover.
According to McGrath, FBI officials retaliated against him by spreading false information designed to damage his career. Those officials were never held accountable for their actions, he said.
The former FBI agent has never told his story publicly until now.
The Department of Justice’s Office of the Inspector General (OIG) declined to comment, while the FBI did not respond to emails from The Epoch Times.
Investigating a New York Politician
In 1997, McGrath was a special agent leading high-profile public corruption investigations in New York. That year, a confidential informant notified him about a prominent politician soliciting allegedly illegal financial contributions.
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