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Ex-FBI official gets over 2 years in prison for receiving $225,000 tied to Albania

Charles McGonigal, a former high-ranking FBI counterintelligence official, was sentenced for taking hundreds of thousands of dollars in cash from a businessman with ties to the Albanian government.

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Ex-FBI official sentenced for corruption, tied to Albanian government

Former FBI official sentenced to over 2 years for concealing financial ties with Albanian businessman, faces 6+ years in total imprisonment.

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Ex-FBI agent pleads guilty to concealing $225K loan from former Albanian official

A former high-ranking FBI counterintelligence official has pleaded guilty to concealing at least $225,000 in cash that he allegedly received from a former Albanian intelligence official while working for the agency

The Independent UK

Ex-FBI counterintelligence official pleads guilty to conspiracy charge for helping Russian oligarch

A former high-ranking FBI counterintelligence official has pleaded guilty to a federal conspiracy charge in a New York

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Disgraced ex-FBI agent expected to plead guilty over Russian oligarch work

Mr McGonigal is one of the highest ranking FBI officials to face criminal charges

The Independent UK

FBI agents break into wrong hotel room and arrest Delta pilot during training exercise

The pilot had been staying the Revere Hotel in Boston, US, and was woken by FBI agents who barged in, handcuffed him and interrogated him for 45 minutes before the officers realised the mistake

Daily Mirror

Albanian opposition holds new rally to seek PM's resignation

Thousands of Albanian opposition supporters have protested anew in the capital Tirana, calling for the prime minister’s resignation for alleged corruption and mishandling of the small Balkan nation’s economy

The Independent UK

Albanian leader denies corruption over indicted FBI agent

Albania’s prime minister has denied that he bribed or gave preferential treatment to a former high-ranking FBI counterintelligence official who has been indicted in the U.S. Edi Rama told Parliament Thursday that the opposition wanted “to politically exploit a legal process in the USA that has no links at all…

The Independent UK

Albanian opposition disrupts parliament, supporters rally

Albanian opposition supporters have protested anew outside the country’s Parliament as lawmakers demanding the government’s resignation for alleged corruption tried to disrupt the house’s session, blowing whistles and crowding the podium

The Independent UK

Albanian opposition disrupts parliament as supporters rally

Albanian opposition lawmakers blowing whistles have disrupted a Parliament session to press home their demand for the government’s resignation for alleged corruption, as hundreds of their supporters outside tried to push into the building

The Independent UK

Albanian opposition leads anti-government protest

Thousands of supporters of Albania’s political opposition are taking part in an anti-government protest and calling for the prime minister’s resignation for alleged corruption and mishandling of the small Balkan nation’s economy

The Independent UK

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Will Bunch: The NYT should tell readers whether it helped crooked FBI agents get Trump elected in 2016

It was arguably the most consequential "October Surprise" in the history of American presidential elections. In the waning days of the 2016 race, with polls showing Hillary Clinton clinging to a lead over Donald Trump, two last-minute stories broke that rekindled on-the-fence voters' ethical doubts about Democrat Clinton and quashed…

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Former FBI agent charged with taking payments, aiding oligarch

A retired FBI official was charged with working for the Russian Oligarch Oleg Deripaska in violation of U.S. sanctions and with taking $225,000 in cash from an unidentified employee of a foreign intelligence service.

The Independent UK

US: Ex-FBI counterintelligence agent aided Russian oligarch

A former high-ranking FBI counterintelligence official has been indicted on charges he helped a Russian oligarch, in violation of U.S. sanctions

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The Guardian - US

Former top FBI official accused of taking cash from Putin ally to investigate rival

Charles McGonigal, 54, conspired to commit money laundering offences by receiving Oleg Deripaska money, prosecutors allege

WEKU

A former high-level FBI agent faces charges for aiding a sanctioned Russian oligarch

Charles McGonigal, the former special agent in charge of counterintelligence in the FBI's New York office, allegedly worked with Oleg Deripaska, who has been on the U.S. sanctions list since 2018.

Al Jazeera

Ex-FBI agent violated sanctions by aiding Russian oligarch: DOJ

Former head of FBI counterintelligence division in New York worked for sanctioned oligarch Oleg Deripaska, US alleges.

Axios

Former FBI official charged with violating U.S. sanctions on Russian oligarch

The DOJ alleged the former special agent conspired to provide services to billionaire Oleg Deripaska.

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