Coverage dated February 16, 2024

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

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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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Delaware Public Media
Ex-FBI official gets over 2 years in prison for receiving $225,000 tied to Albania (opens Delaware Public Media)
Published Feb 16, 2024
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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.
Courthouse News Service
Ex-FBI spy hunter sentenced to 2 years in prison for concealing business deals in Eastern Europe (opens Courthouse News Service)
Published Feb 16, 2024
Courthouse News Service's feed description
Charles McGonigal will serve his Washington sentence after he serves a 50-month sentence already imposed in a similar case in New York.
PBS NewsHour
Former FBI official sentenced to over 2 years in prison for concealing payment from Albanian businessman (opens PBS NewsHour)
Published Feb 16, 2024
PBS NewsHour's feed description
A former high-ranking FBI counterintelligence official was sentenced on Friday to more than two years in prison for taking hundreds of thousands of dollars in cash from a businessman with ties to the Albanian government — and trying to conceal their corrupt financial relationship.
Fox News
Ex-FBI official sentenced to over 2 years in prison for concealing payment from Albanian businessman (opens Fox News)
Published Feb 16, 2024
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A former top FBI official has been sentenced to over two years in prison for accepting cash payments to use his influence to benefit an Albanian national.
NBC News
Former FBI spy hunter sentenced to more than 2 years in prison for lying about cash payment (opens NBC News)
Published Feb 16, 2024
NBC News's feed description
Charles McGonigal pleaded guilty last year in connection with taking $225,000 in cash from an individual tied to the Albanian government.

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