U.S. deports Butina Friday
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Mariia (Maria) Butina is being deported to Russia Friday.
At taxpayer expense.
Yes , “Mariia” is spelled with two “i’s”.
Butina pled guilty to being a Russian spy.
She is being released from a federal prison in Florida.
Mariia was jailed there for 18-months.
Butina spent another six months in federal detention center awaiting trial in Washington, D.C.
Source is the Federal Bureau of Prisons:
https://www.bop.gov/inmateloc/
According to her handler, Alexander Torshin, Butina upstaged Anna Chapman as the most famous spy in Russian history.
Torshin retired as head of Russia’s Central Bank.
https://nypost.com/2018/07/18/maria-butina-was-praised-as-anna-chapman-2-0/
Butina began working for Russian President, Vladimir Putin, in 2011.
The sources are the FBI and Justice Department.
Their court documents submitted into evidence are linked here:
Butina was an interpreter for Vadim Mikerin.
He pled guilty to laundering $2 million in one of the Uranium One cases.
Tomorrow starts the trial of Mark T. Lambert.
He is a defendant in another Uranium One case.
Butina helped Torshin sell Russian-made weapons for CIA operations through the:
NRA
NATO
World Bank
Central Reserve of Russia (Sberbank)
She was Torshin’s interpreter and executive assistant.
Since Butina’s case is over Friday, the evidence is slated to be destroyed.
It includes:
thumb drives of 102,000 hours of audio
one and a half million documents seized from two FBI raids on Butina’s apartment
50-hours of testimony to the FBI and Congress
diaries
notebooks
appointment calendars
and other files found in packed boxes
This evidence is big enough to include all the Russian/CIA compromise operations in the U.S. since 2010.
By comparison, there are 22,000 documents in the Mike Flynn case.
Who is charge of the evidence?
Attorney General William Barr.
He took over the Butina investigation.
No one else has been charged in the conspiracy even though Butina admitted in court documents all sort of alleged criminal activity.
For instance, she received $125,000 from Russian Oligarch Oleg Deripaska.
Butina’s Russian spy network included 72 of her classmates at American University (AU).
They were sponsored through the State Department.
The AU students were CIA and FBI contractors working for the Democratic National Committee (DNC) and former Ambassador Susan Rice.
They worked with CrowdStrike.
Butina campaigned to get Hillary Clinton elected as President.
Hillary lost to Donald J. Trump.
According to Federal D.C. Judge Rosemary Collyer, the American University students violated FISA regulations by spying on 30,055 American citizens.
FISA is the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act.
Thursday Judge Tonya Chutkan ruled that the names and photos of Butina’s classmates at American University are “voided”.
Suppressed.
Quashed.
The judge’s order is linked here:
Butina entered the U.S. through a work visa sponsored by NATO’s Potomac Institute in 2010.
She worked there as an intern.
Mariia Butina (above right) pictured Oct. 26th, 2010 working at the Potomac Institute in Arlington, Virginia. The Institute is sponsored by NATO. The person on the left is unidentified.
The Potomac Institute’s Russian student spy network remains intack through the Institute’s Academic Centers imaged here:
The network includes Gettysburg College, its Eisenhower Institute, and the Oberlin Group.
It includes Fiona Hill’s Russian working group.
Other programs bring in student spies from places like Ukraine.
Congress pays for it.
Mariia had a direct hand in Uranium One, the sale of uranium to Russia.
Butina was the interpreter for Vadim Mikerin.
He pled guilty to money laundering.
Mikerin lives now in Russia.
What about Butina’s former roommate, Paul Erickson?
He goes on trial in South Dakota :Federal Court on Dec. 3rd.
It is alleged Erickson cheated Dakota pipeline investors out of their money.
Butina was Erickson’s partner.
They sold Dakota limited oil and gas partnerships.
How did Butina pay her attorney $438,000?
Vladimir Shapovalov is a Senior Official of the Central Bank of Russia.
And Mariia Butina’s cousin.
Cuz Vladimir took care of it.
