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Paul Erickson, Maria Butina's erstwhile boyfriend, has been arrested and indicted for fraud and money laundering. The charges against Erickson are about swindling investors in the Dakotas, and there isn't an evident link to Butina's foreign agent case. documentcloud.org/documents/5729…
Erickson's docket sheet indicates he's already been arraigned and pleaded not guilty. (See also the "notice" they included about how you can't tell whether he cooperated or not.)
a few observations:
- The SD US Attorney marks the approx timeline of Erickson's fraud from 1996 to August 2018. Butina was arrested in July 2018
- A couple disbursements list a recipient "M.B." who could plausibly be Butina but it's small $
- This may be the bleakest fraud ever
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