BREAKING: Russian agent Maria Butina sentenced to 18 months in prison
Maria Butina, who admitted to conspiring to act as a covert Russian agent and charmed American conservative leaders with her gun-rights activism, was sentenced to 18 months by a D.C. federal judge on Friday.
Just before she was sentenced, Butina made an emotional plea for leniency. Her voice shook as she spoke. Butina said she would have registered as a foreign agent with the Justice Department, but she claimed not to have known U.S. law. During her time in the U.S., Butina also entered a romantic relationship with Paul Erickson, a longtime conservative-movement insider who helped her befriend people in the NRA. Erickson was indicted this year in South Dakota on charges of several financial crimes, none of which involved Butina or Russia.
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