"Ex-FBI Official Sentenced for Concealing Cash Payments"

Former FBI Special Agent in Charge, Charles F. McGonigal, was sentenced to 28 months in prison for concealing his receipt of $225,000 in cash from an individual with ties to the Albanian government while overseeing counterintelligence investigations. He had hidden this relationship and financial transaction from the FBI, which the court found to have substantially interfered with the administration of justice. McGonigal had also been sentenced to 50 months in prison in an unrelated case for conspiring to violate the International Emergency Economic Powers Act and committing money laundering.