Charles McGonigal

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Retired FBI Executive Charged with Concealing $225000 in Cash ... (Department of Justice)

Charles F. McGonigal, 54, a former FBI Special Agent in Charge of the New York Field Office, has been arrested on charges relating to his receipt of ...

McGonigal is charged with concealing material facts and with six counts of making false statements, each of which carries a maximum penalty of five years of imprisonment. McGonigal, 54, a former FBI Special Agent in Charge of the New York Field Office, has been arrested on charges relating to his receipt of $225,000 in cash from an individual who had business interests in Europe and who had been an employee of a foreign intelligence service, while McGonigal was serving as Special Agent in Charge of FBI counterintelligence efforts in the New York Office. McGonigal is accused of engaging in other conduct in his official capacity as an FBI Special Agent in Charge that he believed would benefit the businessperson financially.

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Former top FBI official Charles McGonigal arrested over ties to ... (ABC News)

A former top FBI official in New York has been arrested over his ties to a Russian oligarch, law enforcement sources told ABC News Monday.

He told friends he was working for "a rich Russian guy," according to the indictment, and stressed his work was legal. In addition to the other charges, he has been charged with one count of making false statements. to be arraigned on allegedly taking $225,000 from the Albanian businessman. The person is described as an Albanian national who was employed by a Chinese energy conglomerate. entity to obscure their activity in violation of U.S. "Russian oligarchs like Oleg Deripaska perform global malign influence on behalf of the Kremlin and are associated with acts of bribery, extortion, and violence." McGonigal and Shestakov are accused of receiving payments through shell companies and forging signatures in order to keep it a secret that Deripaska was paying them. Attorney Derek Wikstrom said McGonigal would appear virtually Wednesday before a federal judge in D.C. McGonigal retired from the FBI in 2018. citizens, acted on behalf of Deripaska and fraudulently used a U.S. Each of four counts carries a maximum sentence of 20 years in prison. McGonigal is one of the highest ranking former FBI officials ever charged with a crime.

Former Top FBI Official in New York Charged in Money Laundering (The New York Times)

Prosecutors say Charles McGonigal, who was chief of counterintelligence, worked secretly for Oleg Deripaska to investigate a Russian rival.

Mr. McGonigal and Mr. In electronic messages among themselves, the indictment says, the defendants did not refer to Mr. Shestakov asked Mr. It adds that the firm retained Mr. The indictment says Mr. Agent-1 wanted to retain the firm to work to lift the sanctions on Mr. The indictment says that while Mr. The indictment also charges that the F.B.I.’s New York office, at Mr. law by agreeing to help Mr. Federal prosecutors said Mr. Before he retired in 2018, Mr.

Former high-level FBI official pleads not guilty in alleged schemes to ... (CNN)

The former head of counterintelligence for the FBI's New York field office was charged in two separate indictments Monday for allegedly working with a ...

After he retired from the FBI in 2018, McGonigal was brought on as a consultant for a New York law firm working on Deripaska’s sanctions, the court filing says. He was mentioned dozens of times in special counsel Robert Mueller’s report, which says he is “closely aligned” with Putin. In Washington, McGonigal is charged with concealing connections he had with the person who decades earlier worked for an Albanian intelligence agency, including receiving $225,000 in payments. Defense attorney Seth DuCharme told the court that McGonigal’s work involves international travel and said he might at some point ask for a bail modification. Charles McGonigal, a 22-year veteran of the FBI until he retired in 2018, was arrested Saturday at John F. The charges out of New York allege that he first met the Russian interpreter, Shestakov, in 2018 while at the FBI through a Russian intelligence officer, known to be a diplomat previously for the Ministry of Foreign Affairs for the Soviet Union and Russian Federation.

Ex-FBI official arrested for alleged money laundering, violating ... (NBC News)

Charles McGonigal, ex-head of counterintel for the FBI in New York, was arrested for money laundering, violating Russia sanctions, and taking money from a ...

Embassies in Tanzania and Kenya, and investigated the Sept. During his tenure in New York, he worked on the TWA Flight 800 investigation, was assigned to the task force investigating scientist Wen Ho Lee, investigated the 1998 terrorist bombings of the U.S. “The FBI will go to great lengths to investigate and hold accountable anyone who violates the law, including when the individual is an FBI employee.” Given McGonigal’s ties to the Washington and New York area offices of the FBI, the Los Angeles field office led the two-year-long investigation, three senior law enforcement officials said. Russian oligarchs like Oleg Deripaska perform global malign influence on behalf of the Kremlin and are associated with acts of bribery, extortion, and violence." From August 2017 through his retirement in September 2018, McGonigal allegedly concealed his relationship with this former foreign security officer from the FBI.

Former top FBI counterintelligence agent Charles McGonigal ... (CNBC)

Charles McGonigal, a former FBI agent for counterintelligence, faces charges related to services provided to Russian oligarch Oleg Deripaska.

McGonigal had a corporate email account and a cellphone under a false name to conceal his work, the indictment says. That Deripaska employee, identified in the indictment as "Agent-1" also was a former Soviet and Russian diplomat. The law firm retained McGonigal as a consultant and investigator in its work for Deripaska, the charging document says. assets owned by the second oligarch, the indictment alleges. Deripaska," Shestakov said in the filing, which first was reported by the media outlet Those alleged payments violated sanctions that the United States imposed on Deripaska in 2018, the indictment says. McGonigal, a security professional, on an ad hoc basis," Shestakov wrote. Fokin has communicated with me on behalf of himself and/or his company seeking professional assistance and I have attempted to facilitate those requests with the help of Mr. The charges against him and Shestakov carry a maximum prison sentence of 20 years if they are convicted. sanctions on Russia after he left the FBI by trying to help the oligarch Oleg Deripaska get off the sanctions list, [federal prosecutors](https://www.justice.gov/usao-sdny/press-release/file/1563476/download) said Monday. While at the FBI, McGonigal previously had investigated Deripaska, who made his fortune in Russia's aluminum industry. sanctions on Russia by providing services to the oligarch Oleg Deripaska.