Maria Butina to plead guilty and help prosecutors

^They are choosing to go down with the ship.

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Oh looky.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/boyfriend-of-admitted-russian-agent-charged-with-fraud/2019/02/06/c503afe4-2a6a-11e9-984d-9b8fba003e81_story.html?utm_term=.640d977d6fc4

Are there any Republicans who aren’t running fraud schemes?

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Actually sounds like something that conservative republicans approve of…or at least can accept…or at least look the other way over.

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Okay… this story also is getting weirder.

It looks like Butina’s boyfriend… Paul Erickson… the guy who opened the doors of the NRA for her, is being charged with fraud.

https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/02/07/world/gop-nra-operative-dating-russian-agent-butina-charged-wheelchair-assisted-living-scams/#.XGg9cc9KiL5

He defrauded investors and and is also charged with money laundering.

This part of the article might become important.

Meanwhile, based on the Russian connections he made through Butina, in 2016 Erickson offered to set up contacts between the Kremlin and the Trump campaign.

Also I am sure that this might prove interesting as the days pass.

Erickson began the email, sent to then-incoming NRA President Pete Brownell, with florid language.
“Dear International Man of Mystery or should we just start calling you “Austin Powers” to your face??” he wrote, with a smiley face.
“Miss Butina has (apparently) moved heaven and earth and manipulated the Russian FSB (the current incarnation of the old KGB) and gotten you cleared for a tour of one (1) Russian arms factory the day before the NRA delegation arrives in Moscow,” he continued. “She found a way to shrink a normally 3-week process into about 3-days (probably because most of the FSB agents ‘assigned’ to her want to marry her).”

Amazing that the NRA is doing to itself what it was afraid a bunch of High School kids were going to accomplish.

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Did every friggin criminal just come out of the woodwork when Donald Trump was elected president?

It appears that only the stupid ones did.

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The good old NRA. Mericans out to help white Mericans live scared. suckers

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The NRA and Republican party are not complicit.

Turns out they’re the useful idiots they’ve been warning us about.

Hopefully this brings down the nra and they restructure the group so its not so ■■■■■■■ stupid

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Anybody has willingly, indeed gleefully, had the former KGB do favors for them is well past useful idiot and firmly into the realm of the complicit.

I hope that unexplained 30 million has an explanation. The NRAakready looks like a subsidiary of Russia.

No one said useful idiot wasn’t a good paying job.

It may be a new job category in employment stats before Trump leaves office.