"Ex-FBI Official Receives 28-Month Sentence for Hiding Payments Linked to Albania"

Former top FBI counterintelligence official Charles McGonigal was sentenced to 28 months in prison for concealing a $225,000 payment from an Albanian businessperson with ties to the Albanian government. He admitted to failing to disclose the loan, his travel abroad, and his contact with other Albanian officials. Prosecutors sought a 30-month sentence, emphasizing the abuse of public trust and pure greed. McGonigal had also been sentenced to 50 months in a separate case for conspiring to violate sanctions on Russia and launder money to a Russian oligarch.