Politics Woman Arrested, Charged With Being a Russian Agent

So, not a spy and not charged with any acts of spying.

 

Secretly working with Americans on behalf of the Russian government without telling the American government, sounds pretty much like spying to me.

 

What is the crime here? NRA, Russian, or ?

 

admit it...you just think she's hot with the cowboy hat and pink pistol...she wasn't arrested for being a blonde banker and the charges are espionage....pretty simple unless you really like her representing the NRA

 

read the article and please try to give a sensible anwer Marz…...it's right in front of your nose

 

You love to defend Russians.....even Russian spies? I just don't get it....

 

It's simple, really. It's all got to do with Trump. Trump is the only guy who will thumb his nose at all 'dem college boys and all their fancy thinking. Yep, logic be damned, he hates them thar intellectuals and that's just fine with his supporters.

Global Warming, bah humbug.

Russian interference in our election, bah humbug.

Clean water and clean drinking water, bah humbug.

Affordable health care for all, bah humbug.

A free press, bah humbug.

Not electing a child rapist, bah humbug.

Voting rights, bah humbug.

Condemning Nazis, KKK and White Supremacists, bah humbug.

Oceans rising, bah humbug.

Tax cuts for the wealthy while the poor grow poorer and it's going to have to be paid for by cutting social security and Medicare, bah humbug.

Shall I go on? The list is really long, huh?

 

No Americans were charged with anything, nor were any Americans even mentioned as "working on behalf of the Russian government.

Do you have reading difficulties?

She is charged with not registering as a foreign business agent (probably because she isn't or didn't know she was defined as such), the deep state's newest tool for harassing selected foreigners who aren't under their control.

 

Can you not read? Do you know what espionage means? No, I guess not.

 

You are the one who needs to read the actual charges, because the article is poorly written fake news.

Department of Justice

Office of Public Affairs

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

Monday, July 16, 2018

Russian National Charged in Conspiracy to Act as an Agent of the Russian Federation Within the United States

A criminal complaint was unsealed today in the District of Columbia charging a Russian national with conspiracy to act as an agent of the Russian Federation within the United States without prior notification to the Attorney General.


The announcement was made by Assistant Attorney General for National Security John C. Demers, U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia Jessie K. Liu, and Nancy McNamara, Assistant Director in Charge of the FBI’s Washington Field Office.


Maria Butina, 29, a Russian citizen residing in Washington D.C., was arrested on July 15, 2018, in Washington, D.C., and made her initial appearance this afternoon before Magistrate Judge Deborah A. Robinson in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia. She was ordered held pending a hearing set for July 18, 2018.


According to the affidavit in support of the complaint, from as early as 2015 and continuing through at least February 2017, Butina worked at the direction of a high-level official in the Russian government who was previously a member of the legislature of the Russian Federation and later became a top official at the Russian Central Bank. This Russian official was sanctioned by the U.S. Department of the Treasury, Office of Foreign Assets Control in April 2018.


The court filings detail the Russian official’s and Butina’s efforts for Butina to act as an agent of Russia inside the United States by developing relationships with U.S. persons and infiltrating organizations having influence in American politics, for the purpose of advancing the interests of the Russian Federation. The filings also describe certain actions taken by Butina to further this effort during multiple visits from Russia and, later, when she entered and resided in the United States on a student visa. The filings allege that she undertook her activities without officially disclosing the fact that she was acting as an agent of Russian government, as required by law.


The charges in criminal complaints are merely allegations and every defendant is presumed innocent unless and until proven guilty beyond a reasonable doubt. The maximum penalty for conspiracy is five years. The maximum statutory sentence is prescribed by Congress and is provided here for informational purposes. If convicted of any offense, a defendant’s sentence will be determined by the court based on the advisory U.S. Sentencing Guidelines and other statutory factors.


The investigation into this matter was conducted by the FBI’s Washington Field Office. The case is being prosecuted by the National Security Section of the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of Columbia and the National Security Division of the U.S. Department of Justice.

 

There's another key term, 'infilltrating'.

Webster: Infilltrate -
to enter or become established in gradually or unobtrusively usually for subversive purposes

• the intelligence staff had been infiltrated by spies

 

Yes, I know what the use of the word "espionage" in the article means.

It means the article is FAKE NEWS, meant to dupe idiots and morons who are intellectually lazy.

Nowhere in the charge and nowhere in the DOJ's press release does the word espionage appear.

 

Intellectually lazy, ha ha ha ha, now isn't that ironic.

Yeah, that must be it, fake news.

 

Infilltrating is not even a word.

 

Read and learn
http://www.dictionary.com/browse/infiltrate

 

Proved my point, you can't read.

Pathetic.

 

She doesn't represent the NRA. Keep throwing the fake news around if you like appearing ignorant.

Here's what she actually looks like. The fake news article searched high and wide to find a silly photo for their fakeness.

 

that's all ya got? ha....ooooh….somebody got duped....now she's in jail...so you can front her some bail money and apologize for us dumb folks...maris...you don't fool me...you just have pro Trump earplugs and selective fake conservative insults...I see the Trump lovefest with you is strong....she's arrested....she infiltrated the NRA on Russian directive....I don't think you understand espionage or what a deep state Russia actually has....they've got you fooled. My NRA dig at her was not against the NRA....it was a joke at her....and how easily she'd dupe somebody like you who has to support a fake agenda and conspiracy paranoia as a talking point...you really should read something other than FOX news and get some perspective...intellectually lazy people only read one author and accept it as truth forever....I tend to look at these things from several perspectives instead of blow them off with the same rhetoric over and over and over.....you're quite an example for your ilk.....I'm starting to become entertained by it considering the lack of depth you show in the world of events..