A former top FBI official in New York has been sentenced to four years in prison for conspiring to violate U.S. sanctions on Russia and to commit money laundering, according to the Department of Justice (DOJ).
Charles McGonigal, formerly special agent in charge of counterintelligence in the FBI’s New York Field Office, was sentenced on Dec. 14 to 50 months in prison and ordered to pay a $40,000 fine for violating U.S. laws by conspiring to provide services to Oleg Deripaska, a sanctioned Russian oligarch with ties to Russian President Vladimir Putin.
