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Maria Butina should get 18 more years in prison, not 18 months. (Original Post) milestogo Apr 2019 OP
She will be out and Mr.Bill Apr 2019 #1
Maria Butina should get 18 more years in prison, not 18 months. LenaBaby61 Apr 2019 #2
She said she is looking forward to going home to Siberia. BigmanPigman Apr 2019 #3
Per Rachel, much of Butina's case is under seal. Butina did cooperate. empedocles Apr 2019 #4
Trumpsters want her free to go so she cannot testify. keithbvadu2 Apr 2019 #5

LenaBaby61

(6,973 posts)
2. Maria Butina should get 18 more years in prison, not 18 months.
Fri Apr 26, 2019, 09:47 PM
Apr 2019

I agree, and you hear folks saying that she probably "helped" with other cases here in the USA which is why her sentence was so minuscule 🙄

Let me--Being Native-American & African woman--even ATTEMPT to go over to russua and try doing what that thing Butina did here in the USA 😆😆😆

BigmanPigman

(51,567 posts)
3. She said she is looking forward to going home to Siberia.
Fri Apr 26, 2019, 10:01 PM
Apr 2019

I wish she meant that term when it was used as a term for basically being sent to jail for life (or death) in the former USSR. Putin misses those good ol' days.



empedocles

(15,751 posts)
4. Per Rachel, much of Butina's case is under seal. Butina did cooperate.
Fri Apr 26, 2019, 10:23 PM
Apr 2019

There is a lot there we simply don't know much about.

keithbvadu2

(36,667 posts)
5. Trumpsters want her free to go so she cannot testify.
Fri Apr 26, 2019, 10:46 PM
Apr 2019
https://www.democraticunderground.com/100212046480


Barr is joining Russian spy Maria Butina in requesting she be sent 2 Moscow w/o serving her sentence
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