AP Explains: Ex-FBI official pleads guilty to conspiracy charge

Описание: (15 Aug 2023)
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ASSOCIATED PRESS
New York - 15 August 2023
1. SOUNDBITE (English) Larry Neumeister, Associated Press reporter:
"Charles McGonigal, a former top FBI official in New York, has pleaded guilty to conspiracy, admitting that in 2021 he helped dig up dirt on a rival of a Russian oligarch he once investigated."
2. Wide of McGonigal, former special agent in charge of the FBI's counterintelligence division, arriving to federal court
3. SOUNDBITE (English) Larry Neumeister, Associated Press reporter:
"He will be sentenced in Manhattan federal court on December 14. He could face up to five years in prison."

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4. Close of Charles McGonigal, arriving at court

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New York - 15 August 2023
5. SOUNDBITE (English) Larry Neumeister, Associated Press reporter:
"Well it's significant any time that an FBI official is charged with committing a crime after he leaves office. In this instance to work for a Russian oligarch, who he had once investigated, digging up dirt on a rival is the kind of thing that would really send shockwaves throughout the FBI. It's part of the FBI code, both unspoken and in that that they never embarrass the office and and he apologized and he got a little choked up at one point, as he said he never meant to harm the United States or his fellow coworkers and others."
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STORYLINE:
A former high-ranking FBI counterintelligence official pleaded guilty to a conspiracy charge Tuesday, admitting that he agreed after leaving the agency to work for a Russian oligarch he had once investigated to seek dirt on the oligarch’s wealthy rival in violation of sanctions on Russia.

Charles McGonigal, 55, entered the plea in federal court in Manhattan to a single count of conspiring to violate the International Emergency Economic Powers Act and to commit money laundering, saying he was “deeply remorseful for it.”

McGonigal told Judge Jennifer H. Rearden that he carried out his crime in the spring and fall of 2021, accepting over $17,000 to help Russian energy magnate Oleg Deripaska by collecting derogatory information about a Russian oligarch who was a business competitor of Deripaska.

Sentencing was set for Dec. 14, when McGonigal could face up to five years in prison.

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