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Ex-FBI Agent Who Helped Russian Billionaire Gets 50 Months
- McGonigal worked for Oleg Deripaska, who was sanctioned by US
- Career included work on 9/11, TWA Flight 800 investigations
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A former senior FBI official was sentenced to four years and two months in prison for conspiring to violate US sanctions and launder money while working for Russian billionaire Oleg Deripaska.
Charles McGonigal, 55, was a special agent in charge of the Federal Bureau of Investigation’s Counterintelligence Division in New York, where he oversaw efforts to root out foreign spies and led investigations of Russian oligarchs, including Deripaska. After retiring in 2018, he went to work for the billionaire, digging up dirt on a Deripaska rival, MMC Norilsk Nickel PJSC President Vladimir Potanin, McGonigal admitted in pleading guilty in August.