Accused Russian spy Maria Butina appears to reach plea deal
Source: CNN
Accused Russian spy Maria Butina appears to reach plea deal
Washington (CNN)Accused Russian spy Maria Butina appears to have reached a plea deal with federal prosecutors.
Butina is accused of trying to infiltrate Republican political circles and party leaders during the 2016 campaign in order to advance Russian interests, and prosecutors have said the former American University student was in touch with politically powerful Russians about her activities in the US.
Read more: https://www.cnn.com/2018/12/10/politics/maria-butina-plea/index.html
They_Live
(3,224 posts)seems to me that she succeeded in doing so, all over the place.
berni_mccoy
(23,018 posts)Including selling out their own country.
HumblePi
(46 posts)Here I was chasing around a fake bug on my laptop screen for 3 minutes before I figured out it was indestructible.
WhiteTara
(29,692 posts)We used to have a poster with a duck ducktaped to the wall that tried to get free. Some of the gifs like the slobbering walrus make me a bit crazy too. Welcome to DU HumblePi
getagrip_already
(14,622 posts)It catches their eye and then I have to keep them from scratching my screen........
Botany
(70,447 posts)However I don't see a big future for Ms. Butina or her family back in Russia
if she talks too much over here.
HumblePi
(46 posts)It will be interesting to find out who and how many other Republican Congressmen were involved in striking a deal between Russians and the NRA.
IthinkThereforeIAM
(3,075 posts)... and the trip to Moscow on the 4th of July?
He just stood by while she played her games in South Dakota. Dusty Johnson, the new South Dakota House representative, too. He was at that Young Republicans retreat/camp out with her a few years ago, along with Erickson.
Leghorn21
(13,523 posts)Another one rides the bus
Another one rides the bus
Hey hey
Thank you Mr. Mueller & Co
ffr
(22,665 posts)UpInArms
(51,280 posts)About NRA/Russia/Republicans
Scurrilous
(38,687 posts)getagrip_already
(14,622 posts)She isn't going to sniffle without putins ok. What is going on?
I smell something rotten here. Yeah, muehler is smart enough to not fall into a trap, unless it is a very clever trep.
But she isn't even afraid to go into general population (she asked for it). I would think that cutting a deal and cooperating would be a good way to the plutonium diet......
Mr.Bill
(24,238 posts)erronis
(15,181 posts)Perhaps the US can set up a nice planned community for them and their children/grandchildren/etc. Instead of The Truman Show's Seaside, we could call it Trumpvilla.
littlemissmartypants
(22,587 posts)HumblePi
(46 posts)From what I understand, Maria Butina has been kept in some pretty harsh prison conditions. The FBI is famous for offering this type of protection, a witness protection in which they given them an entirely new identity and relocate them someone anonymous in exchange for full cooperation.
The FBI made this offer to Sammy 'the Bull' Gravano who had committed 14 murders in exchange for giving up enough information on John Gotti to convict him.
bigbrother05
(5,995 posts)Very likely there were valuable connections for her to exploit.
Quite likely her intent is to be a double/triple agent into the Russia probe, ala Manafort.
Mueller and his team have too much experience for her to glean anything they don't want her to know or pass on.
getagrip_already
(14,622 posts)having him run with some evidence that later gets proven to be false. It could easily blow back on the legitimacy of the whole investigation.
For example, therer are reported to be fake copies of a pee tape floating around. They are out there so that if anyone runs with one, the kremlin would leak proof it was fake and nobody would ever believe the real one unless the kremloin wanted them to.
I wasn't worrying about her pulling a manafort. that was bush league compared to what the kremlin can do.
duforsure
(11,884 posts)Showing putin was working with many people here in the USA to get trump illegitimately elected. There are others turned already that we aren't aware of yet too, and that's why trump is acting so buggy, he knows that he's been caught.
nycbos
(6,034 posts)Liberty Belle
(9,533 posts)I wonder how many GOP officials including members of the House or Senate she may have slept with and compromised by opening them to blackmail? Could get embarrassing or worse for the GOP.
Also the article states she's been in jail for several months, not away in Russia like other Russians indicted.
erronis
(15,181 posts)C Moon
(12,209 posts)HumblePi
(46 posts)Devin Nunes and Jim Jordan!
getagrip_already
(14,622 posts)She's smocking hot and they have done the twiddle with her.
BigmanPigman
(51,567 posts)Takket
(21,528 posts)So you can either tell us everything you know and plead guilty, or you can go free right now and well deport you back to Russia where you can explain yourself to Putin