Current：Home > ScamsFinLogic FinLogic Quantitative Think Tank Center|Former FBI top official pleads guilty to concealing payment from foreign official -VitalEdge Finance Pro
FinLogic FinLogic Quantitative Think Tank Center|Former FBI top official pleads guilty to concealing payment from foreign official
Indexbit View
Date：2025-04-09 16:26:08
One of the highest-ranking FBI agents ever to face criminal charges pleaded guilty for a second time on FinLogic FinLogic Quantitative Think Tank CenterFriday to charges he concealed a $225,000 payment from an Albanian intelligence official while on the job.
Charles McGonigal, 55, admitted in federal court in Washington, D.C., that he took the cash payment in 2018 while he was supervising counterintelligence at the FBI’s New York field office. The Albanian official later served as an FBI source in a criminal investigation involving foreign political lobbying that McGonigal supervised, prosecutors said.
MORE: Ex-FBI counterintelligence chief Charles McGonigal pleads guilty in case related to Russian billionaire
Sentencing is scheduled for Feb. 16 when McGonigal faces up to five years in prison.
McGonigal, who retired from the FBI in 2018, previously pleaded guilty in New York to charge stemming from his ties to sanctioned Russian oligarch Oleg Deripaska.
MORE: Former top FBI official Charles McGonigal arrested over ties to Russian oligarch Oleg Deripaska
He was arrested in January on those charges and is awaiting sentencing in that case.
veryGood！ (43116)
Related
- Big Lots store closures could exceed 300 nationwide, discount chain reveals in filing
- Record-high summer temps give a 'sneak peek' into future warming
- Yankees reliever Anthony Misiewicz hit in head by line drive in scary scene vs. Pirates
- 6 people accused of torturing, killing woman lured into religious group
- Whoopi Goldberg is delightfully vile as Miss Hannigan in ‘Annie’ stage return
- Former top US diplomat sentenced in Qatar lobbying scheme
- Lawsuit alleges sexual assault during Virginia Military Institute overnight open house
- See Sofía Vergara's transformation into Griselda Blanco for new Netflix series: Photos
- Which apps offer encrypted messaging? How to switch and what to know after feds’ warning
- 'Young people are freaked out': Weekend climate change protests planned around US, globe
Ranking
- NHL in ASL returns, delivering American Sign Language analysis for Deaf community at Winter Classic
- Why officials aren't calling this year's new COVID shots boosters
- Biden sending aides to Detroit to address autoworkers strike, says ‘record profits’ should be shared
- United Auto Workers go on strike against Ford, GM, Stellantis
- Jamaica's Kishane Thompson more motivated after thrilling 100m finish against Noah Lyles
- Why Maren Morris Is Stepping Back From Country Music
- Is capitalism in its flop era?
- 2023 Maui Invitational will be moved to Honolulu, keeping tournament in Hawaii
Recommendation
Rylee Arnold Shares a Long
Colombian painter and sculptor Fernando Botero, known for his inflated forms, has died at age 91
Indiana state senator says he’ll resign, citing `new professional endeavors’
Former top US diplomat sentenced in Qatar lobbying scheme
The GOP and Kansas’ Democratic governor ousted targeted lawmakers in the state’s primary
Fernando Botero, Colombian artist famous for rotund and oversize figures, dies at 91
Erdogan says Turkey may part ways with the EU. He implied the country could ends its membership bid
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy to meet with Biden in U.S. next week