Thread by @codyave

"In numerous recorded communications, Igor Sporyshev and Victor Podobnyy, the defendants, discussed their work as SVR agents covertly operating in the United States"

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"On April 8, 2013, Igor Sporyshev made the following comments to Victor Podobnyy about targeting 'Female-1' and 'Female-2' as potential intelligence sources located in New York City"

"Also on April 8, 2013, Igor Sporyshev and Victor Podobnyy discussed Podobnyy's efforts to recruit Carter Page, a male working as a consultant in New York City ('Male-1'), as an intelligence source"

"In June 2013, NYFO CI agents interviewed Carter Page about his contacts with Podobnyy. Page acknowledged meeting Podobnyy following an introduction earlier in 2013. When agents intimated during the interview that Podobnyy may be SVR, Page told them he believed in 'openness'"

"On March 2, 2016, the NYFO CI Agent and SDNY Assistant United States Attorneys interviewed Carter Page in preparation for the trial of Evgeny Buryakov, one of the indicted Russian intelligence officers."

"During the interview, Page stated that he knew he was the person referred to as Male-1 in the indictment and further said that he had identified himself as Male-1 to a Russian Minister and various Russian officials at a United Nations event in 'the spirit of openness.'"

"When asked specifically if he told any colleagues he was Male-1, Page said he told the Russian Government Official, 'I didn't do anything illegal with Female #1 or Female #2.'"

"When asked again if he had told anyone he was Male-1, Page said, 'I forget the exact statement.'"

"SSA referenced the complaint, as well as Page's introduction of himself as Male-1 to a Russian official at the United Nations. Page stated that despite what he said in the last interview, 'I don't recall exactly' but whatever he told SDNY in the previous interview is the truth."

Six days later, on March 8, 2016, the Government submitted its Opposition to defendant Buryakov's Motion in Limine; however, all references to Carter Page (Male-1), Female-1, and Female-2 were removed without explanation

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"There's a funny, funny story, if you read this long indictment. You know, you oughta read about it cuz, similarly, where Sporyshev and Podobnyy make various off-the-cuff comments [about Male-1], they're kinda joking around about what they'd like to do to Female-1 and Female-2."

"It's lucky that I happened to read the Washington Post. And, again, I'm sort of an avid reader. But, I was talking with the FBI in 2013, and the next thing I knew, I just happened to see a Washington Post article in January of 2015, saying these three Russians were indicted."

"Podobnyy never made any indication he was trying to recruit me."

"Podobnyy never cultivated anything as an asset."

"It's totally unreasonable that Podobnyy tried to recruit me."

"There were so many falsehoods in their indictment. I told them I am not going to lie in court."