The former head of counterintelligence for the FBI’s New York field office pleaded guilty Tuesday to one count of conspiracy in connection to a scheme working for a sanctioned Russian oligarch in 2021.
Though I don’t want our FBI agents commiting any crime or working for enemy states in any way, this one doesn’t sound as bad as I thought it was when I read the headline. Looks like he was collecting open source dirt on one Russian oligarch in order to benefit a different Russian oligarch. The reason it was illegal is that the benefiting oligarch is on our sanctions list, so no US citizen is allowed to work for him.
I was envisioning him doing something to benefit Russia at the expense of the US.
Though I don’t want our FBI agents commiting any crime or working for enemy states in any way, this one doesn’t sound as bad as I thought it was when I read the headline. Looks like he was collecting open source dirt on one Russian oligarch in order to benefit a different Russian oligarch. The reason it was illegal is that the benefiting oligarch is on our sanctions list, so no US citizen is allowed to work for him.
I was envisioning him doing something to benefit Russia at the expense of the US.