Thread by @PaulaChertok

#BREAKING >> Paul ERICKSON, Russian Agent Maria Butina’s Boyfriend & Republican/NRA Operative, INDICTED for Fraud & Money Laundering, by a federal grand jury in South Dakota today. New report from @woodruffbets @ErinBanco thedailybeast.com/paul-erickson-… #TrumpRussia

Paul #Erickson, already mixed up in Russia probe, is charged with 11 counts of wire fraud and money laundering. Butina's boyfriend faces a maximum penalty of up to 20 years in federal prison for each count in the indictment. rapidcityjournal.com/news/local/eri…

#Erickson indictment shows several payments to "M.B." presumably Maria Butina. One for $8000 on June 24, 2015—just a few weeks before the FreedomFest conference in Nevada at which Butina turned up & got Trump to say if he were president, sanctions on Russia would be gone. #Maddow

#Erickson indictment charges him with defrauding people who thought they were investing in a wheelchair toilet (??), in a company with Orwellian title "Investing with Dignity." And he seems to have used those proceeds to pay for Butina's tuition at American University. #Maddow

Erickson is the perfect useful idiot targeted by the Kremlin. Corrupt, sleazy, engaged in shady Ponzi schemes, ripping off the elderly and disable. The Russians likely also have reams of kompromat on him, and all the NRA fools who cozied up to Russia. Moscow hunting club, indeed!