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Albanian file, prosecutors demand 30 months in prison for Charles McGonigal

Politiko 2024-01-09 17:36:55

Albanian file, prosecutors demand 30 months in prison for Charles McGonigal

Yesterday, prosecutors requested 30 months in prison for Charles McGonigal, the former senior counterintelligence officer at the FBI office in New York, in connection with the Albanian file.

The final verdict will be given on January 26.

The Justice Department is seeking a 50-month prison sentence for the New York Deripaska case, saying McGonigal "betrayed his country and manipulated a sanctions regime vital to its national security."

McGonigal pleaded guilty to a federal charge in New York in August of conspiring to violate a law known as the International Emergency Economic Powers Act.

 He has also been charged and pleaded guilty in a separate case in Washington.

McGonigal lobbied to get oligarch Oleg Deripaska off the US sanctions blacklist. On the other hand, McGonigal has admitted that he worked to blacklist a rival of Deripaska's.

In exchange, Deripaska paid McGonigal $41,000 a month, while he received $51,000 in advance. 

The 55-year-old has pleaded guilty, thus avoiding a trial that could bring charges that would punish him up to 80 years in prison.

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