[Daily Mail, where America gets its news]- Court records show a change of plea hearing for Charles McGonigal
- McGonigal served as top FBI official in New York during Russia probe
- Charles McGonigal had previously pleaded not guilty, accused by U.S. prosecutors of working for sanctioned Russian oligarch Oleg Deripaska
The charges against McGonigal came as U.S. prosecutors ramped up efforts to enforce sanctions on Russian officials and police their alleged enablers in response to the invasion of Ukraine.
Deripaska, the founder of Russian aluminum company Rusal , was among two dozen Russian oligarchs and government officials blacklisted by Washington in 2018 in reaction to Russia's alleged meddling in the 2016 U.S. election.
Among the areas probed by former special counsel Robert Mueller's investigators is Deripaska's relationship with former Trump campaign chair Paul Manafort.
Mueller's report said Manafort told associates to provide Deripaska with internal polling data.
According to prosecutors, McGonigal pocketed $25,000 as an investigator for a law firm, then got payments of $51,000 and $41,790 doing work for Deripaska, during a period from August 2021 to November 2021.
He would try to conceal his employer's identity by referring to him as 'the big guy,' the Washington Times reported.
The Big Guy? Irony alert
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