Ex-F.B.I. Official in Talks to Resolve Charges of Working for Oligarch - posted at 13:03:51 UTC via nytimes.com
Ex-F.B.I. Official in Talks to Resolve Charges of Working for Oligarch posted at 13:03:51 UTC via nytimes.com Once the F.B.I.’s top counterintelligence official in New York City, Charles F. McGonigal was charged with concealing contacts with foreign nationals. The arrest of Charles McGonigal shocked colleagues who had worked with him on some of the Federal Bureau of Investigation’s most sensitive cases in recent years.Credit...Hiroko Masuike/The New York Times A former senior F.B.I. official is in talks to resolve criminal charges in two separate indictments, including entering a possible guilty plea as early as next week in a case involving accusations that he worked for a Russian oligarch, according to a public filing and statements by his lawyer in court. Charles F. McGonigal, who retired in 2018 as the counterintelligence chief in the F.B.I.’s New York field office, one of the agency’s most sensitive posts, has been accused by federal prosecutors in New York of violating U.S.
