Ex-FBI spy hunter to be sentenced for concealing payments from former Albanian intelligence officer

Washington — Charles McGonigal, the former top counterintelligence official at the FBI's New York office, is set to be sentenced Friday for concealing at least $225,000 in cash he received from a former Albanian intelligence officer. 

McGonigal pleaded guilty in September to one count of hiding from the FBI the payments he got from a former employee of Albania's intelligence agency who had moved to New Jersey.

In exchange for his guilty plea, charges relating to McGonigal's failure to disclose his overseas travel to meet with foreign government officials and businesspeople while employed by the FBI were dropped.