US indicts 13 Russians for election interference

2018/2/17 0:16:49

After months of President Donald Trump telling Americans that the investigation of Russian meddling was a “witch hunt” and a “hoax,” Special Counsel Robert Mueller produced today a 37-page indictment that should make it almost impossible for Trump to continue parroting the charges few people accepted – even before the exquisitely detailed indictment was made public. The ringleader of the Russian effort was Yevgeny Prigozhin, [pictured] a businessman famously known by the nickname, “Putin’s banker”.

 


From Deutsche Welle, Feb 16, 2018

 

Thirteen people and three companies have been charged with political tampering, bank fraud and aggravated identity theft. The indictment said some defendants communicated with unwitting members of the Trump campaign.

 

US special counsel Robert Mueller and his team have charged 13 Russian nationals and three Russian companies with tampering in the country's political process, the US Department of Justice confirmed on Friday.

 

The indictment lists a multimillion dollar scheme with a timeframe from 2014 to the present, "including the presidential election of 2016."

 

The defendants are also accused of an elaborate plot "disparaging Hillary Clinton" and promoting the campaign of President Donald Trump using divisive fake social media posts and advertisements across a variety of platforms and purchased in the names of American citizens. The ultimate goal of the group was to "sow discord in the US political system."

 

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