Ex-FBI agent charged with aiding Russian oligarch walks free on $500K bond: Prosecutors say he also took $225k in bribes from Albanian spy and had secret meeting with country’s PM
Charles McGonigal, 54, walked free from Manhattan federal court on Monday on a $500,000 personal recognizance bond, following his arrest Saturday on charges in two indictments.
One of the indictments, filed in Manhattan, accused McGonigal of violating US sanctions laws by working for Oleg Deripaska, a billionaire crony of Vladimir Putin, following his 2018 retirement from the FBI.
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