{"id":51957,"date":"2023-01-23T20:01:46","date_gmt":"2023-01-24T04:01:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cjnotebook.com\/?p=51957"},"modified":"2023-01-23T20:01:46","modified_gmt":"2023-01-24T04:01:46","slug":"former-special-agent-in-charge-of-ny-fbi-counterintelligence-division-charged-with-helping-russian-under-investigation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cjnotebook.com\/?p=51957","title":{"rendered":"Former Special Agent in Charge of NY FBI  Counterintelligence Division Charged with Helping Russian Under Investigation"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"field field--name-field-pr-body field--type-text-long field--label-hidden\">\n<div class=\"field__items\">\n<div class=\"field__item even\">\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-1057 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/cjnotebook.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/Justice-Depart-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cjnotebook.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/Justice-Depart-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/cjnotebook.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/Justice-Depart-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/cjnotebook.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/Justice-Depart.jpg 320w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 24px;\">The FBI announced Monday the unsealing of a five-count Indictment charging Charles McGonigal and Sergey Shestakov of violating the International Emergency Economic Powers Act or IEEPA.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 24px;\">They are also charged with\u00a0conspiring to commit money laundering and money laundering.\u00a0 <\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 24px;\">Shestakov is also charged with making material misstatements to the FBI, officials stated.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 24px;\">The defendants were arrested on Saturday. <\/span><span style=\"font-size: 24px;\">The defendants are presumed innocent unless proven guilty.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 24px;\">FBI Assistant Director in Charge Michael J. Driscoll said: \u201cThe FBI is committed to the enforcement of economic sanctions designed to protect the United States and our allies, especially against hostile activities of a foreign government and its actors. \u00a0Russian oligarchs like Oleg Deripaska perform global malign influence on behalf of the Kremlin and are associated with acts of bribery, extortion, and violence.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 24px;\">\u00a0Adding, &#8220;as alleged, McGonigal and Shestakov, both U.S. citizens, acted on behalf of (Oleg) Deripaska and fraudulently used a U.S. entity to obscure their activity in violation of U.S. sanctions.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/5BfeutV2Gd8\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<div class=\"field__item even\">\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 24px;\">According to the allegations contained in the Indictment unsealed Monday in Manhattan federal court:<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 24px;\">In 2014, the President issued Executive Order 13660, which declared a national emergency concerning the situation in Ukraine.\u00a0 <\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 24px;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1073 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/cjnotebook.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/criminal_justice_jurisprudence-2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"299\" height=\"188\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cjnotebook.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/criminal_justice_jurisprudence-2.jpg 299w, https:\/\/cjnotebook.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/criminal_justice_jurisprudence-2-120x76.jpg 120w, https:\/\/cjnotebook.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/criminal_justice_jurisprudence-2-265x168.jpg 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24px;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-17022 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/cjnotebook.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/Russia-Image-300x186.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"186\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cjnotebook.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/Russia-Image-300x186.jpg 300w, https:\/\/cjnotebook.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/Russia-Image-308x192.jpg 308w, https:\/\/cjnotebook.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/Russia-Image-610x380.jpg 610w, https:\/\/cjnotebook.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/Russia-Image.jpg 620w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>On April 6, 2018, the U.S. Department of the Treasury\u2019s Office of Foreign Assets Control (\u201cOFAC\u201d) designated Oleg Deripaska as a Specially Designated National (\u201cSDN\u201d) in connection with its finding that the actions of the Government of the Russian Federation concerning Ukraine constitute an unusual and extraordinary threat to U.S. national security and foreign policy (the \u201cOFAC Sanctions\u201d).\u00a0 <\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 24px;\">According to the U.S. Treasury, Deripaska was sanctioned for acting as a senior official of the Government of the Russian Federation and for operating in the energy sector of the Russian Federation economy.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 24px;\">McGonigal,<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 24px;\"> is a former Special Agent in Charge (\u201cSAC\u201d) of FBI\u2019s Counterintelligence Division in New York, who retired in 2018.\u00a0 <\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 24px;\">While working at the FBI, McGonigal supervised and participated in investigations of Russian oligarchs, including Deripaska. \u00a0Shestakov is a former Soviet and Russian diplomat who became a U.S. citizen and a Russian interpreter for courts and government offices.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 24px;\">In 2021, McGonigal and Shestakov conspired to provide services to Deripaska, violating U.S. sanctions imposed on Deripaska in 2018.\u00a0 <\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 24px;\">Specifically, following their negotiations with an agent of Deripaska, McGonigal and Shestakov agreed and investigated a rival Russian oligarch in return for concealed payments from Deripaska.\u00a0 <\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 24px;\">As part of their negotiations with Deripaska\u2019s agent, officials stated that McGonigal, Shestakov and the agent attempted to conceal Deripaska\u2019s involvement by, among other means, not directly naming Deripaska in electronic communications, using shell companies as counterparties in the contract that outlined the services to be performed, using a forged signature on that contract, and using the same shell companies to send and receive payments from Deripaska.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 24px;\">McGonigal and Shestakov were aware that their actions violated U.S. sanctions because, among other reasons, while serving as SAC, McGonigal received then-classified information that Deripaska would be added to a list of oligarchs considered for sanctions as part of the process that led to the imposition of sanctions against Deripaska.\u00a0 <\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 24px;\">In addition, in 2019, McGonigal and Shestakov worked on behalf of Deripaska in an unsuccessful effort to have the sanctions against Deripaska lifted.\u00a0 In November 2021, when FBI agents questioned Shestakov about the nature of his and McGonigal\u2019s relationship with Deripaska\u2019s agent, Shestakov made false statements in a recorded interview.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\" align=\"center\"><span style=\"font-size: 24px;\">*\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 *\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 *<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 24px;\">\u00a0McGonigal, 54, of New York City, and Shestakov, 69, of Morris, Connecticut, are charged with one count of conspiring to violate and evade U.S. sanctions, in violation of the IEEPA, one count of violating the IEEPA, one count of conspiring to commit money laundering, and one count of money laundering, each of which carries a maximum sentence of 20 years in prison.\u00a0 Shestakov is also charged with one count of making false statements, which carries a maximum sentence of five years in prison.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 24px;\">Mr. Williams praised the outstanding work of the FBI New York Field Office\u2019s Counterintelligence Division and the valuable 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