NEW: The most shocking moments of the new Russia indictment—from promoting conspiracy theorists to "fake Rubio" thebea.st/2CUMJEG
Federal prosecutors indicted a Russian woman, Elena Alekseevna Khusyayno, alleged to be the chief accountant of Project Lakhta, a sprawling Kremlin campaign to influence politics in the U.S. and E.U. thedailybeast.com/the-most-shock…
Khusyayno appears to have “kept detailed financial docs” providing some of most specific evidence to date of Kremlin-tied origins of an onslaught of fake, inflammatory social posts polluting American/allied political discourse thedailybeast.com/the-most-shock…
The indictment adds new detail, saying that the Russians’ social-media themes included “the Charlottesville ‘Unite The Right’ rally” that killed anti-racist protester Heather Heyer thedailybeast.com/the-most-shock…
An unnamed conspirator in Project Lakhta described their goal as to “effectively aggravate the conflict between the minorities and the rest of the population" thedailybeast.com/the-most-shock…
“Colored LGBT are less sophisticated than white; therefore, complicated phrases and messages will not work,” the indictment quotes a conspirator thedailybeast.com/the-most-shock…
John McCain should be branded “as an old geezer” who belongs in a nursing home, according to Russian conspirators quoted in the indictment thedailybeast.com/the-most-shock…
Paul Ryan, the indictment shows, was to be branded “a complete and absolute nobody incapable of any decisiveness” by Russian conspirators thedailybeast.com/the-most-shock…
Khusyaynova’s indictment on Friday charges that the Russian influence campaign is ongoing. But it came even as U.S. intel said there was as yet no evidence of foreign penetration of U.S. election-relevant systems thedailybeast.com/the-most-shock…
