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The Albanian shakedown: A new twist in the FBI’s Charles McGonigal scandal

By John Schindler
Published February 13, 2023 5:07pm ET
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The Albanian shakedown: A new twist in the FBI’s Charles McGonigal scandal
Charles McGonigal, former special agent in charge of the FBI's counterintelligence division in New York. | (AP Photo/John Minchillo)

The FBI has never endured a scandal quite like the one that’s enveloped Charles McGonigal.

The former FBI official was indicted on federal charges last month. According to the Department of Justice indictment, after his retirement from the FBI in 2018 after a 22-year career mostly in counterintelligence, McGonigal violated U.S. sanctions on Russia by becoming a fixer for Oleg Deripaska, a top Kremlin oligarch, a man well known to Russian President Vladimir Putin, as well as Russia’s security agencies.

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