. >>> walking into "the situation room" right now, eric o'neill, the former fbi agent who helped bring down a notorious russian spy and is here to talk about that story and a lot more. you will hear it first on cnn. there's a new wrinkle in the fraud case involving nearly 50 russian diplomats and their wives. they're accused of running a decade-long scheme to steal $1.5 million from medicaid but now it appears there may be a whole lot more to this story. sources telling cnn some of these alleged thieves are also spies. cnn's justice reporter evan perez broke the story for us. tell us what you've learned. >> reporter: well, wolf, sources tell me that for some time, the fbi has been trying to bring spy charges against several of these diplomats. these are diplomats that work out of new york for the russian consulate there. but in the end, the justice department decided that they wanted to bring -- there wasn't enough evidence and they decided to go after them for fraud, defrauding medicaid, which is even more embarrassing to the russian government. now, you might recall the 2010 case tha

former fbi officer eric o'neill, who took down spy robert hanson and was portrayed in the movie "breach the general may have been targeted. >> these women could be trained intelligence officers who are honey traps. their job is to seduce him and extract information from him and he's put himself in a position they have a good chance of doing that. >> reporter: the concern tonight, experts say, is that the general could have unintentionally given up sensitive information. >> he will understand not only how the missiles work but he will also understand what the missiles are targeted against so he will not only have access to the target list, he will understand something about the launch codes and he has worked in it himself as a more junior officer so he understands the procedures. >> tonight, there is no indication officials say that general kerry's behavior impacted sensitive nuclear weapons operations and there's no indication that he went beyond drinking, dancing and talking with those women, but the report did cite him for conduct unbecoming an officer and a gentleman. he was stripped