The top Democrat on the Senate Judiciary Committee wants more information on investigations overseen by former FBI official Charles McGonigal, who was arrested last month over alleged ties to a Russian oligarch.
February 2, 2023, 12:01 PMU.S. Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Dick Durbin takes part in the U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on President Joe Biden's judicial nominees on Capitol Hill, Jan. 25, 2023, in Washington.
"These allegations are extremely disturbing and raise concerns about the potential impact this misconduct may have had on the FBI's counterintelligence matters and criminal investigations," Sen. Dick Durbin, an Illinois Democrat, writes to FBI Director Christopher Wray and Attorney General Merrick Garland. "As a SAC for the New York Field Office, Mr.
Noting the indictment alleges that McGonigal concealed his receipt of $225,000 cash from a former Albanian intelligence agency employee, Durbin writes, "Both indictments include alleged conduct that occurred while Mr. McGonigal served as the Special Agent in Charge of FBI's Counterintelligence Division in the New York Field Office from 2016 to 2018 and after his retirement."
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