Ex-FBI official McGonigal pleads guilty to concealing payments from foreign officials
- McGonigal admitted to hiding $225,000 in payments from a former Albanian intelligence officer.
- He pleaded guilty to charges in New York related to working with sanctioned Russian oligarch Oleg Deripaska.
- McGonigal failed to disclose overseas trips, contacts with foreigners, and business plans while at the FBI.
- He supervised FBI probes into Russian oligarchs and other sensitive counterintelligence cases.
- Sentencing is pending, with McGonigal facing up to 5 years in prison on the concealed payments charge.