Mueller Indicts 13 Russians Accused of Election Meddling
Charges include conspiracy, wire fraud, bank fraud and aggravated identity theft
Special counsel Robert Mueller charged 13 Russians and three Russian organizations for allegedly interfering in the U.S. 2016 presidential elections with the intention of promoting President Donald Trump’s candidacy by posting as American activists, creating Facebook groups and organizing fake rallies.
Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein said at a press conference Friday that the Russians “allegedly conducted what they called ‘information warfare’ against the United States,” with the goal of “spreading distrust against candidates and the political system in general.”
Charges listed in the 37-page indictment include conspiracy, wire fraud, bank fraud and aggravated identity theft, and they are the most direct allegation to date of illegal Russian meddling in the 2016 election.
Rosenstein said his team has not had communication with Russia about the indictments and would go through normal channels for the extradition of those indicted. However, the U.S. government has no extradition treaty with Russia. In the past, Russia has not cooperated with these requests.
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The president has been briefed on the indictment, the White House said. The Russian government called the accusations absurd. Mueller’s office said that none of the defendants was in custody.
Beyond the 13 people indicted, Mueller announced the Feb. 12 guilty plea of a California man for identity theft, Richard Pinedo, who is cooperating with prosecutors. The indictment of Russian individuals and companies also suggests a broader conspiracy than Mueller charged, saying grand jurors heard about others involved in the scheme.
Richard Painter, who was the chief ethics adviser in the George W. Bush administration, said the lack of any evidence of collusion in the indictment wasn’t the final word by prosecutors.
“They’re charging what they know,” he said. “The contact with the Trump campaign might be unwitting in this case, but that doesn’t mean that the collaboration issue is finished.”
“The contact with the Trump campaign might be unwitting in this case,
but that doesn’t mean that the collaboration issue is finished.” LOL! What does that mean? New lies coming down the pike? “If the lie doesn’t work….lie bigger!” They’ll be trying to prosecute him for the next 7 years. As long as he’s ‘under investigation’ he will always be considered guilty by many. And that’s the whole point.
The word “collusion” has been a terrible one to use in the Trump-Russia saga, since it doesn’t accurately describe either the criminal or counterintelligence aspects of what we know. On the criminal side, the word that would best describe an agreement between the Trump campaign and Russia to commit any number of crimes (say, election fraud) would be “conspiracy”—something that the recent release of Donald Trump Jr.’s email chain might support.
So the US Taxpayers just spent Millions of dollars to implicate Russian Conspirators, that will never be prosecuted, and Mueller never showed a lick of evidence to prove his indictments… Makes me happy to see my Taxpayer dollars being wasted on a sham Hillary Clinton tried to impeach Trump with…
Not only were millions of tax payer dollars wasted on a sham, but they could have been used to prosecute crimes that actually exist and are easy to prosecute given the amount of documented evidence that supports the crimes committed by Hillary, Comey, Obama and many many more. This indictment is nothing more than a way of telling the American people “Fuck you, the real criminals will never be brought to justice”. At this point, Mueller has become just as guilty of treason by enabling the real crimes to skate. What we have is an investigation headed by a criminal who’s main purpose is to see that the other criminals are never brought to justice. There is no other way to look at it.