Former FBI official pleads guilty to conspiracy charge for aiding Russian oligarch
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Aformer FBI counterintelligence official pleaded guilty on Tuesday to charges related to his work for a Russian oligarch who he was once investigating.
55-year-old Charles McGonigal told a federal judge in New York City he was "deeply remorseful" for the prior work done for Russian oligarch Oleg Deripaska.
The former FBI special agent in charge of the agency's counterintelligence division from 2016 to 2018 told the federal judge that he took over $17,000 from Deripaska in exchange for collecting derogatory information on a different Russian oligarch. Deripaska was a business competitor with the person McGonigal was paid to find derogatory information on.
Additionally, McGonigal was allegedly working to help get Deripaska removed from the sanctions list, prosecutors said. …
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