Former FBI spy hunter sentenced to 4 years for taking money from Putin crony in Russia sanctions case

A former FBI special agent who headed a counterintelligence division was sentenced to more than four years in prison Thursday for supplying information to a Russian oligarch in violation of U.S. sanctions, prosecutors said. Charles McGonigal, now 55, was sentenced to 50 months in prison, the U.S. District Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of New York said. After he had retired from the agency, McGonigal violated U.S. sanctions when he supplied information to Russian oligarch Oleg Deripaska in 2021, officials said. The information McGonigal collected was open-source information, he...