Ex-FBI official sentenced to 28 months for hiding foreign payments
WASHINGTON DC: An ex-FBI agent has been sentenced to prison for accepting $225,000 from a foreign government while serving in the agency.
Charles McGonigal, 55, was found guilty of taking money from an Albanian agent. At the time, McGonigal oversaw counterintelligence and national-security matters as the top agent in the FBI's New York office from 2017 and 2019.
McGonigal received an 8-month sentence for