Butina's boyfriend to testify against Trump?
Paul Erickson (above) with his business partner, Mariia Butina.
She pled guilty to being a Russian spy.
They served on President Donald J. Trump’s Inauguration Committee.
Paul Erickson pled guilty today to:
laundering $100,000
wire fraud
He remains free without bond.
Prosecutors have never required that Erickson be jailed.
According to court record five dated Feb. 6th called “Bail Report”, a dozen more will be charged in Erickson’s investment scam.
Their names are blocked from public record.
Only their initials have been given.
No sentencing date has been set for Erickson.
His immunity deal only applies to crimes committed in South Dakota.
However, the crimes Erickson pled guilty to today involved property in the Bakken oil fields.
They are in North Dakota.
How can Erickson reduce his 40-year jail sentence and fines up to $750,000?
Rat out the other dozen co-conspirators.
Or testify against President Donald J. Trump in the impeachment hearings.
https://www.scribd.com/document/435725134/Paul-Erickson-ten-page-plea-agreement-Nov-18th-2019
Erickson has worked with Adam Schiff (D-CA) before.
It was in a CIA operation called “The Kremlin Connection.”
It is explained here:
The source of the "Kremlin Connection" incident is the 99-page report called the "Report on Russian Active Measures dated March 22nd" 2017.
It is linked here:
https://docs.house.gov/meetings/IG/IG00/20180322/108023/HRPT-115-2.pdf
It was written by nine Democratic Minority Members of the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, headed by Adam Schiff (D-CA).
Erickson was Mariia (Maria) Butina’s business partner in selling Russian arms and enriched uranium used in making nuclear warheads.
She was deported back to Russia last month.
Erickson admitted running guns in the Iran-Contra fiasco.
Photo courtesy of Paul Erickson.
Here he is running guns in 1990 during the Iran-Contra scandal.
Illegal drugs were swapped for weapons that ended up in Iran.
According to Erickson’s second plea agreement signed Friday, he admitted stealing between $1.5 million and $3.5 million in false investments.
Erickson signed a third plea agreement on Friday.
However, prosecutors sealed rather than disclosed it.
How much money did Erickson swindle from investors?
Who knows?
Maybe prosecutors are still trying to figure it out.
Source is today’s court record imaged here:
Erickson’s investment scams date back to 1996.
Butina was never prosecuted for any of it.
Mariia worked for:
Vladimir Putin, President of the Russian Federation
George O’Neill, grandson of John D. Rockefeller
https://www.scribd.com/document/435725134/Paul-Erickson-ten-page-plea-agreement-Nov-18th-2019
Northern Plains Holdings, LLC was one of the companies Erickson was selling for.
Count One, wire fraud, carries a maximum sentence of:
20 years in prison
$250,000 fine
or both
and three years of supervised release.
Count Eight, money laundering, has the same penalties.
With one exception.
The Judge can fine Erickson up to $500,000 on the money laundering charge.
There is also $100 assessment per count to the Victims' Assistance Fund, for a total of $200.
Restitution may also be ordered.
Erickson was arrested by U.S. Marshall Matthew S. Miller on Feb. 6th.
No one from the FBI wanted to do it.
They have no office in South or North Dakota.
