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Russian spy Maria Butina pleads guilty in US court
2018-12-14
[Al Jazeera] A woman accused of acting as a Russian agent to infiltrate a powerful gun lobby group and influence the United States's policy towards Moscow has pleaded guilty to a single count of conspiracy.

Maria Butina, a former graduate student at the American University in Washington, DC who had publicly advocated for gun rights, changed her plea from not guilty to guilty during a hearing on Thursday.

The 30-year-old was charged in July with acting as an agent of the Russian government and conspiracy to take actions on behalf of Moscow.
What kind of stupid government wants the enemy population to be even better armed?
Prosecutors accused Butina of working with a Russian official and two US citizens in trying to infiltrate the National Rifle Association (NRA), a group closely aligned with Republican politicians including US President Donald Trump
...New York real estate developer, described by Dems as illiterate, racist, misogynistic, and what ever other unpleasant descriptions they can think of, elected by the rest of us as 45th President of the United States...
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