Ex-FBI Agent Charles F. McGonigal Sentenced for Violating Sanctions and Money Laundering

McGonigal, who served as chief of counterintelligence for the FBI in New York, worked on behalf of a Russian oligarch in violation of sanctions, imperiling national security.

Charles F. McGonigal, a former top F.B.I. agent, has been sentenced to more than four years in prison for conspiring to launder money and violate U.S. sanctions intended to punish a Russian oligarch with ties to President Vladimir V. Putin.
McGonigal had served as chief of counterintelligence for the Federal Bureau of Investigation in New York before retiring in 2018.
McGonigal admitted to working on behalf of Oleg V. Deripaska, a Russian aluminum magnate, in violation of sanctions imposed on him in 2018.
McGonigal was also fined $40,000 and will face a second sentencing in February for hiding $225,000 in payments he had received from a former Albanian intelligence officer, along with overseas travel, meetings with foreign nationals and other dealings.
McGonigal's crimes have been described as 'extremely serious' by Judge Jennifer H. Rearden of Federal District Court, as they had imperiled national security.