Former Russian diplomat Sergei Shestakov was sentenced to two months in jail for lying to US law enforcement in a sanctions-evasion case involving ex-FBI agent Charles McGonigal and Kremlin-linked oligarch Oleg Deripaska.

#SergeiShestakov #CharlesMcGonigal #OlegDeripaska #Deripaska #Russia

https://www.rferl.org/a/russia-shestakov-mcgonigal-deripaska-fbi-crime/33563333.html

The Diplomat, The Oligarch, The FBI Agent: Russian-American Faces Trial In Deripaska Sanctions Case

Ex FBI counterintelligence agent Charles McGonigal pled guilty & sentenced to 4 yrs prison for illegal work for sanctioned Russian oligarch Oleg Deripaska

Sergei Shestakov goes on trial Jun 17 on similar charges

#OlegDeripaska #Deripaska #SergeiShestakov #CharlesMcGonigal

https://www.rferl.org/a/russia-sanctions-deripaska-shestakov-mcgonigal-trial/33440136.html

Dogged By Debts, Disputes And Divorce, A Russian Oligarch Also Draws FBI Scrutiny

In 2022 the FBI looked into Vladimir Gusinsky's ties to former FBI agent Charles McGonigal, who was sentenced to prison for sanctions evasion work for Oleg Deripaska

By Mike Eckel and Todd Prince

#VladimirGusinsky #CharlesMcGonigal #RussianOligarch

https://www.rferl.org/a/russia-gusinsky-mcgonigal-fbi-oligarch/33273859.html

CNN: #CharlesMcGonigal, a 22-year veteran of the #FBI who oversaw national security investigations at the bureau’s New York field office, was sentenced Friday “to 28 months in prison followed by three years of supervised release for his undisclosed receipt of $225,000 in cash from an individual with ties to the #Albanian government while McGonigal was supervising counterintelligence investigations,” the DOJ said.

https://amp.cnn.com/cnn/2024/02/17/politics/retired-fbi-agent-charles-mcgonigal-sentenced/index.html

#OlegDeripaska #Putin #Russia

Charles McGonigal, Former Special Agent in Charge of the New York FBI Counterintelligence Division Sentenced to 50 Months for Conspiring to Violate U.S. Sanctions on Russia - in connection to 2021 agreement to provide services to Oleg Deripaska

#charlesmcgonigal #mcgonigal #RussianSanctions #Russia #olegderipaska #deripaska

https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/former-special-agent-charge-new-york-fbi-counterintelligence-division-sentenced-50-months

One of the highest-ranking #FBI agents to ever face #criminal charges was sentenced to over four years in #prison on Thurs for secretly colluding w/a #RussianOligarch.

#CharlesMcGonigal, a former counterintelligence leader in the FBI's New York field office, pleaded #guilty to a #conspiracy charge. McGonigal's lawyers had asked for no prison time, but the judge came down harshly on the former FBI bigwig.

#law #corruption
https://abcnews.go.com/US/fbi-counterintelligence-chief-charles-mcgonigal-sentencing-begin/story?id=105642391

Charles McGonigal, ex-FBI Special Agent in charge of NYC Field Office, pleaded guilty to concealing material facts re: receipt of $225K from individual with business interests in Albania while McGonigal supervised counterintelligence efforts.

https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/retired-fbi-special-agent-charge-pleads-guilty-concealing-information-fbi

In Aug. McGonigal pleaded guilty to conspiring to violate US sanctions on Russia and money laundering connected to services to Russian oligarch Oleg Deripaska

https://www.justice.gov/usao-sdny/pr/former-special-agent-charge-new-york-fbi-counterintelligence-division-pleads-guilty

#CharlesMcGonigal #McGonigal #Deripaska #FBI

former head o #Counterintelligence 4 #FBI’s #NY office plead guilty in DC, in connection 2 scheme 2 hide hundreds of thousands of $$ he received from former #Albanian
intel employee as well as foreign contacts he made w/ the individual.

Guilty plea comes 1 mnth after former counterintel head, #CharlesMcGonigal, pleaded guilty in NY to 1 count of conspiring 2 violate US sanctions on #Russia on separate charges connected 2 work he did 4 sanctioned Russian oligarch in 2021

https://www.cnn.com/2023/09/22/politics/fbi-charles-mcgonigal-plea/index.html