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Accused Russian ‘agent’ to plead guilty
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A Russian gun rights advocate who built a powerful network of Republican contacts that reached into President Donald Trump’s circle has reached a deal to plead guilty, after her arrest for acting as an illegal foreign agent, a court filing by her lawyers indicated.
Maria Butina, 30, was arrested in July by counter-espionage agents and charged with conspiring to act as an agent of Russia “by developing relationships with US persons and infiltrating organizations having influence in American politics.”
Butina, whose first name is also spelled Maria, at the time pleaded not guilty to charges of acting illegally as an unregistered agent for the Russian government.
— AFP
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