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🚨BREAKING: Paul Erickson, convicted #Russian🇷🇺agent Maria Butina's boyfriend, pleaded GUILTY to wire fraud and #MoneyLaundering. admitting that he conned “DG” into wiring him $100,000 for a fake "real estate investment," then wired $1,000 to “MB.”

thedailybeast.com/paul-erickson-…
Paul Erickson, Maria Butina's "boyfriend" who pleaded GUILTY to wire #fraud and #MoneyLaundering, raised money for the NRA. Shortly before the NRA’s 2016 convention, he emailed Rick Dearborn about meeting btwn Putin & Trump.

Subject: “Kremlin Connection”

Maria Butina's #indictment alleged that “Person 1” (Paul Erickson) formed a SECRET BACKCHANNEL between the Kremlin and **key @GOP leaders**.

Butina cooperated with prosecutors AGAINST Erickson, who now is a convicted #felon.

@GOP Erickson allegedly recommended KT MacFarland to serve as Deputy NSA under Misha🇷🇺Flynn.

Nothing to see here.

@thespybrief
@GOP @thespybrief Hey @thespybrief,

Paul Erickson just pleaded GUILTY to 2 federal felonies: wire #fraud and #MoneyLaundering.👇🏼

@GOP @thespybrief Who can ever forget this video of Erickson singing with his convicted #Russian🇷🇺agent girlfriend, Maria Butina?

Butina cooperated WITH our government AGAINST Erickson, while serving time in the slammer.

#TrumpRussia

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Dr. Dena Grayson
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🚨BREAKING: Prosecutors #subpoena people tied to @RudyGiuliani and his #Ukrainegate henchmen—Les Parnas and Igor Fruman—indicating a BROAD federal probe into alleged #MoneyLaundering, #ObstructionOfJustice, and campaign-finance violations.

#ImpeachTrump
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“Among the entities named in the #subpoenas are Giuliani Partners, a security-consulting firm...that had multiple foreign clients, including a city in #Ukraine. The subpoenas also sought info on a company co-founded by Parnas that paid Giuliani for business and legal advice.”🔥
Subpoenas listed >6 potential charges: #ObstructionOfJustice, #MoneyLaundering, #conspiracy to defraud the US, making false statements, serving as a foreign agent w/o registering, donating funds from foreign nationals, making straw donations, mail #fraud and wire fraud. 🔥
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🔥#Ukrainegate henchman—Lev Parnas—allegedly met with Ukrainian-#Russian🇷🇺mobligarch Dmitry Firtash at Rudy’s direction and encouraged Firtash to help dig up dirt “as part of any potential resolution to his extradition matter” on #bribery & other charges.

nytimes.com/2019/11/25/us/…
🔥In June, Parnas advised Firtash to hire 2 lawyers already helping Rudy dig up dirt—Joe diGenova and Victoria Toensing—who would help BLOCK Firtash’s extradition to the US.

Firtash hired and paid them $1.2 million. In August, they met with Bill Barr to plead Firtash’s case.🛎
Yet another corrupt #QuidProQuo by Team Trump, but this time, with a reputed Ukrainian-#Russian🇷🇺mobligarch already under federal #indictment for #bribery and #RICO.

And the complicit @GOP will excuse yet more #corruption by @realDonaldTrump at the cost of our democracy.🤬
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🔥Roger Stone juror: “We did not convict Stone based on his political beliefs...We convicted him of obstructing a congressional investigation, of lying in 5 specific ways during his sworn congressional testimony and of tampering with a witness.”

washingtonpost.com/opinions/i-was…
Juror: “The evidence in this case was substantial and almost entirely uncontested. The real dispute was whether Stone had lied under oath (to @HouseIntel) and **whether that mattered**. The defense offered by Stone’s attorney can be summed up in to two words: ‘So what?’”🤬
🔥Roger Stone juror: “Our unanimous conclusion was this: The truth matters. Telling the truth under oath matters....it is more important than ever that we still have places where the truth can be presented, examined and discerned. Congress is one of those places.“🇺🇸💙💖
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Paul Erickson, the South Dakota boyfriend of Russian spy Maria Butina pleads guilty in a fraud / money laundering scheme that authorities said bilked at least $2.3 million from 78 people

Each charge carries a maximum sentence of 20 years in prison.

washingtonpost.com/national/south…
Paul Erickson, the GOP live-in lover of Russian spy Maria Butina, recommended KT McFarland to serve as Deputy NSA.

McFarland lied about Flynn's contact w Russia.

On 12/29/16 she sent an email saying Russia has just thrown the election to Trump
Both are now convicted felons

Paul Erickson and Russian spy Maria Butina at Trump's inauguration
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Paula Chertok🗽
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In NEW sentencing memo on Maria BUTINA, prosecutors seek 24 month sentence, saying tho not a traditional spy, her deception as an "access" agent, identifying vulnerable networks and individuals for Russia's spies to conduct influence operations, was integral to her crime.
Correction: Prosecutors ask for an 18-month sentence for Russian agent Maria #Butina, a downward departure from the 24 months recommended in the sentencing guidelines because of her cooperation assets.documentcloud.org/documents/5972… via @ZoeTillman
This thread has a link to an article by @KirkseniyaSF discussing #Butina serving as an "access" agent for Russia's trained spies
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Paula Chertok🗽
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#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
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Wendy Siegelman
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Paul Erickson, Russian Agent Maria Butina’s Boyfriend, Indicted for Fraud - arrested today Erickson pleaded not guilty - federal indictment in South Dakota alleges he ran a criminal scheme 1996-2018 using a chain of assisted living homes. by @woodruffbets thedailybeast.com/paul-erickson-…
Indictment alleges Erickson
-ran criminal scheme w/Compass Care assisted living
-defrauded investors thru co Investing with Dignity(developing wheelchair so people could go to bathroom w/o being lifted)
-fraudulent home building scheme Bakken oil fields ND
thedailybeast.com/paul-erickson-…
This Daily Beast article from July 2018 provides more detail about Paul Erickson and various lawsuits against him and his assisted living company Compass Care
thedailybeast.com/accused-russia…
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Sarah Kendzior
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Russian Agent Maria Butina’s Boyfriend Indicted for Fraud thedailybeast.com/paul-erickson-…
Paul Erickson is best known for his role in the Trump/Russia/NRA probe. He was arrested however for running a fraud and money-laundering scheme unimpeded for *22 years*.

Imagine what we would have avoided if white-collar crime were actually prosecuted when it happened.
On @gaslitnation we've discussed how the Mueller probe reveals not only the extent of entrenched criminality in US business and government, but the utter failure of officials to investigate and stop it
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Paula Chertok🗽
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There's always more >> Accused spy Maria #Butina turned on her Russian charm to secure Russian jet fuel deal with David Keene, NRA president & prominent leader of the conservative movement, his lobbyist wife, & her boyfriend Erickson — The New York Times nytimes.com/2018/09/02/us/…
THREAD on sloppy NYT piece on #Butina. See @john_sipher who says she's not a professional spy but an 'access agent teeing up fools for Russia to compromise.' She develops access & provides targeting information to the professionals, so they know who's vulnerable, who to go after.
@john_sipher There are spies and there are spies. Russia has a dizzying array of intelligence agents, special services & proxies, formal professionals & informal agents like Maria #Butina. @KirkseniyaSF reviews some of the nuances in @KyivPost kyivpost.com/article/opinio… cc @SethAbramson @nytimes
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