Charles McGonigal, the disgraced former FBI official who also helped to launch the Trump collusion probe, is headed to prison.
The man who pleaded guilty to conspiracy and to concealing foreign contacts and bribes will be spending over four years in a federal prison. McGonigal had been working with a Russian oligarch, Oleg Deripaska, who is also known as “Putin’s henchman.”
During the sentencing, McGonigal admitted that his actions have caused him “extreme mental, emotional, and physical pain,” but still asked for a second chance from the judge in the case.
Judge Jennifer Rearden argued that McGonigal “repeatedly flouted and manipulated the sanctions regimes vital” to American security interests. “The undeniable seriousness of this and the need to respect the law,” Rearden continued, “compels a meaningful custodial sentence.”
The FBI official admitted during the hearing…
