America Has a McGonigal Problem
A retired FBI boss got 4 years in prison. But Charles McGonigal is not the only US official taking money from sketchy foreign oligarchs.
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A retired FBI boss got 4 years in prison. But Charles McGonigal is not the only US official taking money from sketchy foreign oligarchs.
By Kara Scannell, CNN
Charles F. McGonigal had pleaded guilty to conspiring to violate U.S. sanctions and laundering payments from a Russian oligarch.
McGonigal, 55, was handed the sentence by Manhattan federal court by Judge Jennifer H. Rearden for his work trying to dig up dirt for the wealthy businessman.
A former FBI counterintelligence official has been ordered to spend over four years in prison for violating sanctions on Russia by going to work for a Russian oligarch seeking dirt