The former FBI counterintelligence agent charged with helping a Russian oligarch evade US sanctions has been freed on bail. Russian billionaire Oleg Deripaska was sanctioned by the US and then charged with violating them last year. In 2018, while McGonigal was still working for the FBI, Shestakov introduced him to a former Soviet and Russian diplomat who functioned as an agent for Deripaska, the indictment said. According to the indictment, Shestakov asked McGonigal for help getting the agent's daughter an internship in the New York Police Department´s counterterrorism and intelligence units. McGonigal did so, prosecutors allege, without revealing to the FBI or Justice Department his financial connections to the man.
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