Maria Butina, the only Russian arrested and convicted in the three-year investigation of Moscow's interference in US politics, on Tuesday called her conviction absurd and a 'disgrace' for American justice. Butina's lawyer, Robert Driscoll, confirmed Butina's participation in the
Moscow - Maria Butina, the only Russian arrested and convicted in the three-year investigation of Moscow's interference in US politics, on Tuesday called her conviction absurd and a"disgrace" for American justice.
US prosecutors said that although she worked openly and was not tied to any Russian intelligence agency, she was sending back reports to a high-level Russian official, Alexander Torshin, and posed a threat to the United States. Her case played out against a backdrop of tension between Moscow and Washington over what US intelligence says was a concerted effort by Russian spies to interfere in the 2016 presidential election, using hacking and social media manipulation to help President Donald Trump to victory.
US prosecutors acknowledged that Butina had nothing to do with those cases but alleged that she was part of a"spot-and-assess" operation to identify potential recruits.Butina said US officials working on the Mueller report had spoken to her for"all of five minutes".She again denied she was a pro-Kremlin political activist, saying she was a gun campaigner and worked towards better US-Russian relations.
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