Crime & Justice

Enraged Ex-Lover Tipped Off FBI to Top Official Accused of Helping Russia

HELL HATH NO FURY

After her fling with Charles McGonigal ended, Allison Guerriero says she was so angry at his deception that she fired off a drunken email to his boss.

Former FBI official Charles McGonigal, who led the agency's counterintelligence division in New York, exits Manhattan federal court
Andrew Kelly/Reuters

The angry ex-lover of the FBI’s former New York counterintelligence chief claims she tipped the feds off to some of his misdeeds before his arrest last week. Charles McGonigal, who was part of the FBI probe of the Trump campaign’s Russia ties, has been charged with money laundering, lying to the FBI, and taking money to help a sanctioned Russian oligarch, among others. In an interview with Insider, Allison Guerriero said she dated McGonigal for a year, unaware he was married. He spent far more lavishly than an FBI salary would typically allow, she recalled, and she once found a bag of cash in his apartment. But after their fling ended, he revealed he was married and had no plans to leave his wife. She said she was so angry that, after a bout of drinking, she emailed his boss to disclose the affair as well as extensive dealings she’d noticed McGonigal had in Albania. It’s unclear what came of the email but the feds turned up on her doorstep three years later to ask her about McGonigal and some of her allegations regarding Albania appeared in last week’s indictment.

Read it at Insider

Got a tip? Send it to The Daily Beast here.