The FBI’s former top counterintelligence investigator in New York arrested and charged in January with working for a Russian oligarch is now expected to change his plea.
A separate case filed in federal court in Washington, D.C., alleges that while serving as special agent in charge of FBI counterintelligence efforts in the New York office, McGonigal took $225,000 in cash from an individual with business interests in Europe who had been an employee of a foreign intelligence service.
There is currently no change of plea hearing requested in the D.C. case, only for the charges pertaining to New York's investigation. Given McGonigal’s ties to the Washington and New York area offices of the FBI, the Los Angeles field office led the two-year-long investigation, three senior law enforcement officials said. The decision to move the probe to Los Angeles was to ensure there were no conflicts of interest or competing interests among agents who may have known McGonigal.
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