Former senior FBI official accused of working for Russian he investigated. Charles McGonigal, a former counterintelligence chief, is also accused of taking $225,000 from a former Albanian intelligence worker while still at the FBI - WP
Former senior FBI official accused of working for Russian he investigated Charles McGonigal, a former counterintelligence chief, is also accused of taking $225,000 from a former Albanian intelligence worker while still at the FBI By Shayna Jacobs, Spencer S. Hsu, Devlin Barrett and Shane Harris Updated January 23, 2023 at 6:44 p.m. EST|Published January 23, 2023 at 12:56 p.m. EST Former FBI official Charles McGonigal had ‘distressing day’ 0:56 Attorney Seth DuCharme said it was a “distressing day” for former FBI official Charles McGonigal as they left the U.S. District Court in Manhattan on Jan. 23. (Video: The Washington Post) Listen 10 min NEW YORK — The FBI’s former top spy hunter in New York was charged Monday with taking secret cash payments of more than $225,000 while overseeing highly sensitive cases, and breaking the law by trying to get Russian billionaire Oleg Deripaska removed from a U.S. sanctions list — accusations that shocked the cloistered world of his fellow high-ranki
