Moscow says U.S forced false confession from alleged Russian agent Maria Butina
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Moscow says U.S forced false confession from alleged Russian agent Maria Butina
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FILE PHOTO: Maria Butina appears in a police booking photograph released by the Alexandria Sheriff's Office in Alexandria, Virginia, U.S. August 18, 2018. Alexandria Sheriff's Office/Handout via REUTERS/File PhotoMOSCOW (Reuters) - Russia's Ministry of Foreign Affairs accused the United States of forcing Russian national Maria Butina to falsely confess to what it described on Wednesday as the ridiculous charge of her being a Russian agent.
Butina pleaded guilty in a U.S. court on Thursday to a single conspiracy charge in a deal with prosecutors.
The 30-year-old Siberian admitted working with a top Russian official to infiltrate a powerful U.S. gun rights group and to making inroads with American conservative activists and politicians as an agent for Moscow.
Maria Zakharova, a spokeswoman for the Russian foreign ministry, said on Wednesday that Butina had been coerced into making a false confession.
"Butina confirmed that she had done a deal with U.S. investigators and confessed to being a foreign agent," Zakharova told a news briefing in Moscow.
"Having created unbearable conditions for her and threatening her with a long jail sentence, she was literally forced to sign up to absolutely ridiculous charges."
Butina's legal team and U.S. prosecutors face a 5 p.m. (2200 GMT) deadline to submit legal filings regarding their positions on the case at the U.S. District Court in Washington. A status hearing in the case is scheduled for Feb. 12, 2019.
(Reporting by Vladimir Soldatkin in Moscow and Susan Heavey in Washington; Writing by Andrew Osborn; Editing by Tom Balmforth)
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All they had to do was allow the President to "interrogate" her with his tiny hands then expose himself to her and she was telling them whatever they wanted to hear to make him stop.
she was sent here to suck trumpster prong
Instead she got Goldfinger's less attractive younger brother Orangefinger's...
yeah, I think we're going to find out a lot more about lyin' wacko Wayne LePierre than we ever wanted to know.
It'll be good to get the NRA exposed for the SuperPAC corrupt entity they've become. The rightwing and their strongmen wannabe's aren't going to like it when this all breaks open and it's coming. That's why there's so much discord being scammed about our judicial system and investigative agencies. From Russia and within. This is going to pull a lot of assholes sitting in their golden bunkers into
the light and it's not going to be pretty. Trump thought he had it all having so much dirt on everyone else in his party that he could keep them complicit. Well guess what? America's true Boy Scouts will never let them get away with this.
OF course Moscow says this. Would we ever expect anything less?
Didn't take long for someone to come along and derail this seed. [deleted]
I was commenting directly to Russia's claim in the seed that we "created unbearable conditions for her ". I was simply imagining what those unbearable conditions might have been.
I guess we have to add "derail" to the lengthening list of words you either don't know or need to misuse.
Actually, it was started with comment #2 and followed by the usual suspects, including you.
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oh come on...
Well, I WAS going to eat dinner....
finger sandwich?
This is a great defense......it worked really well for Flynn.
well the agent clearly is got some choices to make. and i have a funny feeling they all will have to do with hiding and survival.
ooh well, she played big, risked big , to make her life potentially very short.
Chapman was hotter.
she was working a younger age group within that specific demographic
Maria's handlers have been arrested...Moose and Squirrel believed to have escaped to Cuba.
moose will be fielding questions from the press for squirrel before leaving
Rule #1, NEVER believe everything Moscow says.
Rule number 2...Refer to rule number 1.