Former FBI Official Admits Concealing Foreign Payments in Guilty Plea
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Former FBI official Charles McGonigal pleaded guilty to concealing over $225,000 in foreign payments from an Albanian official while leading the bureau's counterintelligence operations in Europe. McGonigal accepted the funds from late 2017 until his retirement in late 2018 and also violated Russian sanctions by accepting bribes from oligarch Oleg Deripaska. Sentencing for both cases is scheduled for December and February, respectively.
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