Former Top FBI Official Sentenced for Secretly Working for Russian Oligarch
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Charles F. McGonigal, former top FBI agent, sentenced to over 4 years in prison for conspiring to launder money and violate US sanctions on Russian oligarch Oleg Deripaska
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McGonigal admitted to working for Deripaska to investigate his rival Vladimir Potanin, seeking sanctions on Potanin to benefit Deripaska
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Actions obscured by shell companies and subcontractors; aimed to cause sanctions on Potanin to level playing field for Deripaska
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McGonigal was FBI New York chief of counterintelligence before 2018 retirement, an extremely sensitive role
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McGonigal expressed deep remorse but prosecutor said "no one knew better" the gravity of his crimes than McGonigal himself