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Charles McGonigal was charged over his ties to Oleg Deripaska One of the highest-ranking FBI officials ever criminally charged is expected to plead guilty next week in Manhattan federal court, according to a new court filing. Charles McGonigal, the former head of counterintelligence for the FBI's New York field office, is scheduled for a "plea proceeding" Aug. 5, according to a judge’s order. "The Court has been informed that Defendant Charles McGonigal may wish to enter a change of plea," the order said. McGonigal was charged over his ties to Oleg Deripaska, a Russian billionaire who has been sanctioned by the United States and criminally charged last year with violating those sanctions. MORE: Russian billionaire charged with violating US sanctions McGonigal, who retired from the FBI in 2018, is charged with violating U.S. sanctions by trying to get Deripaska off the sanctions list. He was also accused of investigating a rival Russian oligarch in return for ...

Daniel Penny has been charged with second-degree manslaughter in the chokehold death of Jordan Neely on the NYC subway. Marine veteran Daniel Penny was charged with second-degree manslaughter and criminally negligent homicide Wednesday in connection with the chokehold death of Jordan Neely aboard a subway train. Penny pleaded not guilty to the charges and is free on $100,000 bail. His next court appearance is October 25. Members of Neely’s family sat in the second row during Penny's court appearance. Penny’s relatives sat in the row behind them. Penny was indicted by a grand jury on June 14. Video showed Penny, 24, putting Neely in a chokehold on May 1. Several witnesses observed Neely making threats, Assistant District Attorney Joshua Steinglass told the judge during Penny's initial appearance in court on May 12. Daniel Penny, center, is walked out of the New York Police Department 5th Precinct in Lower Manhattan, May 12, 2023, on his way to a arraignment after he surre...

Scot Peterson, the ex-Parkland resource officer accused of allegedly failing to confront the school shooter, has been found not guilty. The former Parkland, Florida, resource officer accused of failing to confront the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School shooter who killed 14 students and three staff members in 2018 has been found not guilty on all counts . Scot Peterson, 60, was charged in 2019 with multiple counts of child neglect after an internal investigation found that he retreated while students were under attack. Prosecutors accused Peterson, a 30-year veteran of the Broward Sheriff's Office, of making a false statement, claiming that he did not hear gunshots. Scot Peterson reacts to the verdict in the courtroom on June 29, 2023, in Fort Lauderdale, Fla. ABC News, POOL Pet erson could be seen sobbing with his head on the table after the verdicts were read by the judge. Scot Peterson reacts to the verdict in the courtroom on June 29, 2023, in Fort Lauderdale, Fla. ABC News...

Deja Taylor was accused of unlawful use of marijuana in possession of a handgun and making a false statement about her drug use during the purchase of the firearm The mother of the 6-year-old who police say shot his first-grade teacher in January in Virginia plans to plead guilty to new charges related to when she bought the gun her son is believed to have used. Deja Taylor was accused on Monday of unlawful use of marijuana in possession of a handgun and making a false statement about her drug use during the purchase of the firearm, both of which are felonies, federal prosecutors said. Taylor's attorney, James Ellenson, told ABC News later Monday that she will enter a guilty plea within days. "We intend to present mitigating evidence that we trust the Court will view favorably at sentencing later this year following preparation of a pre-sentence report," Ellenson said in a statement. MORE: Family of 6-year-old who shot teacher speaks out for 1st time He added that the sh...

Robert Wise pleaded guilty Tuesday in Manhattan federal court to one count of conspiring to commit international money laundering. A New York attorney is charged in a scheme to make nearly $4 million in payments to maintain six properties in the United States that were owned by a sanctioned oligarch . The attorney, Robert Wise, pleaded guilty Tuesday in Manhattan federal court to one count of conspiring to commit international money laundering, which carries a maximum sentence of five years in prison. "With today's guilty plea, Robert Wise has admitted that he misused his position of trust as a lawyer, laundering money to promote sanctions violations by Viktor Vekselberg's longtime associate, Vladimir Voronchenko," U.S. Attorney Damian Williams said in a statement. "This Office is proud to continue its work to enforce the sanctions imposed in response to Russia's illegal war in Ukraine." MORE: Russian billionaire charged with violating US sanctions ...

A man already imprisoned in Florida for another killing has pleaded guilty to the unsolved 1991 slaying of a woman he met at a bar DELAND, Fla. -- A man already imprisoned in Florida for another killing pleaded guilty Tuesday to the long- unsolved 1991 slaying of a woman he met at a bar. Michael Townson, 53, was sentenced by a judge to life in prison with the possibility of parole after 25 years, state prosecutors said in a news release. Townson admitted striking and fatally choking Linda Lois Little after meeting her at a Daytona Beach nightspot in October 1991. Little's body was never found. Prosecutors said Townson told them he drove north on Interstate 95 and left Little's body near a dumpster in rural Camden County, Georgia. Checks of unidentified bodies in that county turned up no match for Little. Townson was already serving a life prison sentence for beating Sherri Carmanto to death with a steel pipe in 2007 at her home in Titusville, Florida. “This defendant is a ...

Jurors have reached a verdict in the Aaron Dean trial concerning the death of Atatiana Jefferson. A jury has found former police officer Aaron Dean guilty of manslaughter in the death of Atatiana Jefferson, a 28-year-old Black woman who was fatally shot in her Fort Worth, Texas, home in 2019. The jury considered both a murder charge and a lesser charge of manslaughter during its deliberations, according to Judge George Gallagher. Manslaughter is a second-degree felony according to Texas penal code. It's punishable by two to 20 years in prison and up to a $10,000 fine. Dean's sentence will be decided by the jury. The sentencing phase will begin Friday morning at 10 a.m. Eastern time. Throughout the five days of testimony, the jury heard from Jefferson's now-11-year-old nephew Zion Carr, who was in the room when she was shot. MORE: Atatiana Jefferson death: Jury begins deliberations in murder trial Jurors also heard from Dean's partner that night, Officer Carol Da...