Naturally, he was working for Russia TPM unpacks the story: The same FBI official accused of illegally working for a Russian oligarch also faces charges of concealing a $225,000 payment while he was working for the bureau, court papers say. Per a Jan. 18 indictment, a D.C. federal grand jury charged Charles McGonigal, a former special agent in charge of the counterintelligence division at the FBI’s New York City field office, with nine counts relating to a scheme in which he allegedly took hundreds of thousands of dollars in cash from a former foreign intelligence official. The indictment does not specify whether McGonigal did anything specifically in exchange for the money — he faces charges of concealment, false statements, and falsifying official records. But the charging documents lay out a story in which McGonigal appears to have used the powers that came with his position — including to open criminal investigations — in a way that may have benefitted those paying him. McGonigal was charged separately on Monday in Manhattan federal court with a scheme to violate U.S. sanctions on Oleg Deripaska, a Russian oligarch. That scheme allegedly took place after McGonigal left his position at the FBI in 2018, and purportedly involved McGonigal trying to evade sanctions in order to work for Deripaska. But if that’s shocking albeit vanilla post-retirement self-dealing, the allegations about what McGonigal did while high up in the apparatus of federal law enforcement are extremely spicy. In August 2017, prosecutors said in the indictment, McGonigal met with…