A five-count indictment charging McGonigal was unsealed last week.
The GOP-led House Judiciary Committee is seeking information from the FBI about Charles McGonigal, the former top counterintelligence official in the bureau's New York field office who was Judiciary Committee Chairman Jim Jordan, an Ohio Republican, and Rep. Matt Gaetz, a Florida Republican, wrote ato FBI Director Chris Wray on Thursday seeking material and information about McGonigal as part of an investigation into allegations of political bias at the bureau.
A five-count indictment unsealed in federal court in New York last week accused McGonigal of working for Oleg Deripaska, a Russian aluminum magnate with ties to Russian President Vladimir Putin. Deripaska has been under U.S. sanctions since 2018, and federal prosecutors allege McGonigal and Sergey Shestakov, a former Russian diplomat who became a U.S. citizen, worked for Deripaska to investigate an unnamed rival Russian oligarch in 2021.
Jordan and Gaetz have requested Wray turn over to the committee all personnel records regarding McGonigal; documents and communications"referring or relating to the FBI's process for assessing and responding to the investigation" concerning McGonigal; and material related to the FBI's efforts to mitigate national security risks posed by McGonigal's alleged actions.
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