Oleg V Deripaska, 55, was once recruited by the FBI only to later use a former agent to get out of US sanctions, according to an indictment filed against a former FBI agent, Charles McGonigal.
The bureau tried to court Oleg Deripaska, a Russian aluminum magnate, as an informant. Instead, one of its own top agents may have ended up working for him.
An angry ex-lover of the FBI s former New York counterintelligence chief claims she tipped the feds off to some of his transgressions before his arrest last week.
Retired top FBI official Charles McGonigal pleaded not guilty in federal court in Washington on Wednesday to criminal charges alleging he took at least $225,000 from a former Albanian intelligence agent while serving as the chief of counterintelligence for the FBI’s New York field office. McGonigal’s arraignment came two days after he pleaded not guilty…