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pnwmom

(108,977 posts)
Fri Mar 30, 2018, 08:10 PM Mar 2018

Mueller might have nabbed the DNC hacker, or someone with info about him -- Nikulin,

who has been the subject of competing extradition actions (to the US and Russia) for more than a year. Nikulin himself wrote a letter from Czech prison complaining that the FBI was trying to make him confess to having hacked the US election.

This article is full of interesting details -- much more than other articles I've read -- but I just hit a paywall that won't let me return to it.

Read it yourself if you can. For instance, I didn't know that Anthony Weiner had a Formspring account, during the time period when Nikulin is accused of hacking Formspring.

http://www.mcclatchydc.com/news/politics-government/article207514139.html

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writes3000

(4,734 posts)
4. Thanks for sharing. I didn't know much about Nikulin. He seems important, for sure.
Fri Mar 30, 2018, 10:13 PM
Mar 2018

PS - I would much rather read pieces like this than another thread about Roseanne's latest tweet.

Takket

(21,563 posts)
7. wow, i've never even heard of this guy!
Fri Mar 30, 2018, 10:20 PM
Mar 2018

How is this not a bigger story??????????????

Question.......... since this is a foreigner prosecuted in the USA, can drumpf pardon him?????????

pnwmom

(108,977 posts)
8. I don't know why there isn't more interest. I've been waiting for more than a year
Fri Mar 30, 2018, 10:34 PM
Mar 2018

for this extradition to finally be done. The President of the Czech Republic was said to be favoring his return to Russia instead, so this was never a certain outcome.

triron

(22,001 posts)
12. kick again
Sat Mar 31, 2018, 03:14 PM
Mar 2018

Here is another post which seems to get little attention yet I feel strongly otherwise.

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