Ex-FBI Counterintelligence Chief Admits Concealing Payments from Foreign Officials

Former FBI counterintelligence chief, Charles McGonigal, pleaded guilty for a second time to charges of concealing a $225,000 payment from an Albanian intelligence official while he was supervising counterintelligence at the FBI's New York field office. The Albanian official later became an FBI source in a criminal investigation that McGonigal supervised. McGonigal, who retired from the FBI in 2018, previously pleaded guilty to charges related to his ties to Russian oligarch Oleg Deripaska and is awaiting sentencing in that case. He now faces up to five years in prison for the concealment charges.