Ex-FBI counterintelligence chief pleads guilty to concealing payment from foreign official
A high-ranking FBI agent pleaded guilty for a second time on Friday to charges he concealed a $225,000 payment from an Albanian intelligence official while on the job. One of the highest-ranking FBI agents ever to face criminal charges pleaded guilty for a second time on Friday to charges he concealed a $225,000 payment from an Albanian intelligence official while on the job. Charles McGonigal, 55, admitted in federal court in Washington, D.C., that he took the cash payment in 2018 while he was supervising counter intelligence at the FBI’s New York field office. The Albanian official later served as an FBI source in a criminal investigation involving foreign political lobbying that McGonigal supervised, prosecutors said. MORE: Ex-FBI counterintelligence chief Charles McGonigal pleads guilty in case related to Russian billionaire Sentencing is scheduled for Feb. 16 when McGonigal faces up to five years in prison. In this Jan. 23, 2023, file photo, Charles McGonigal, former special a...