From the New York Times: Former Senior F.B.I. Official in New York Charged With Aiding Oligarch

It seems like Russia has done quite a job infiltrating American institutions. 

Something to consider when we discuss foreign policy in 2305

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A former senior F.B.I. official in New York who oversaw some of the agency’s most secret and sensitive counterintelligence investigations was accused on Monday of taking money from a former Albanian intelligence employee and from a representative of Oleg V. Deripaska, a Russian oligarch.

The charges against the former official, Charles F. McGonigal, came in separate indictments unsealed in New York and Washington, D.C., after an investigation by his own agency and federal prosecutors. In the New York case, he was charged with violating economic sanctions that the United States has imposed on Russia because of its aggression in Ukraine.

Before he retired in 2018, Mr. McGonigal had been the special agent in charge of the F.B.I.’s counterintelligence division in New York. In that post, he supervised investigations of Russian oligarchs, including Mr. Deripaska, whom the U.S. attorney’s office in Manhattan charged him with aiding. Mr. Deripaska is an aluminum magnate with ties to President Vladimir V. Putin.

Federal prosecutors said Mr. McGonigal, 54, broke U.S. law by agreeing to help Mr. Deripaska, who was indicted himself last year on sanctions charges, investigate a rival oligarch and try to get off the sanctions list.

Terminology: 

senior F.B.I. official
counterintelligence investigations
Albanian intelligence employee 
Oleg V. Deripaska
Russian oligarch.
charges
Charles F. McGonigal
indictments
unsealed
investigation
federal prosecutors
violating economic sanctions
F.B.I.’s counterintelligence division in New York
U.S. attorney’s office in Manhattan
aluminum magnate
Federal prosecutors
U.S. law
investigate a rival oligarch and try to get off the sanctions list.
American law enforcement.
Jonathan C. Poling
Justice Department’s national security division.
secret cash payments
foreign lobbying
confidential informant.
global malign influence
Kremlin
bribery, extortion and violence.”
the bureau’s director,
Christopher Wray
the public’s trust
Federal District Court in Manhattan
charges
one count of violating U.S. sanctions
one count of money laundering
two conspiracy counts
Paul Manafort
campaign chairman
financial fraud
McGonigal’s lawyer
Seth D. DuCharme
pleaded not guilty
discovery
evidence
Sergey Shestakov
U.S. attorney’s offices for the Southern and Eastern Districts of New York
public servants
Damian Williams
U.S. attorney for the Southern District
Russian counterintelligence
organized crime
counterespionage
Russian interference in the 2016 election
Robert Mueller III
asking judges to renew wiretaps on
Carter Page
Trump campaign adviser
Treasury Department’s office of foreign assets
New York Police Department
counterterrorism,
intelligence gathering
“international liaisoning”
one count of concealing material facts
six counts of making false statements
two counts of falsification of records and documents.