Charles McGonigal is accused of taking $225,000 from a former Albanian intelligence worker while still at the FBI. He previously pleaded guilty to aiding a Russian oligarch.
The FBI’s former top spy hunter in New York, who last month pleaded guilty to conspiring to violate U.S. sanctions and launder funds for a Russian billionaire he once investigated, is set to plead guilty Friday in a separate case alleging he hid secret cash payments while overseeing highly sensitive cases.A plea hearing for Charles F. McGonigal, 55, was set for 2 p.m. Friday before U.S.
Terms of a deal were not immediately disclosed and are not final until accepted by a judge. McGonigal faced two federal counts of falsifying records or documents, punishable by up to 20 years in prison, and seven counts of concealing material facts or making false statements, which each carry up to five years in prison. He could potentially plead guilty to one of the lesser counts.McGonigal attorney Seth DuCharme and a spokeswoman for the U.S.
As special agent in charge of the FBI’s counterintelligence division in New York from 2016 to 2018, McGonigal supervised investigations of Russian oligarchs, including Oleg Deripaska, an ally of Russian President Vladimir Putin. McGonigal retired from the FBI in September 2018. He was
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