Ex-FBI agent pleads guilty to illegally working for Russian oligarch

NEW YORK CITY, New York: In exchange for prosecutors dropping certain charges, former FBI agent Charles McGonigal has admitted to working for Russian oligarch Oleg Deripaska in a New York court.

McGonigal, 55, also pleaded guilty to one count of conspiracy.

In January, prosecutors said that McGonigal, who led the FBI's counterintelligence division in New York before retiring in 2018, investigated a rival