Maria Butina has asked a federal judge to release her from prison and send her home to Russia after she spent nine months in jail since her arrest for acting as a foreign agent of the Russian government
Her defense attorneys have cast her in the court filing Friday night as an earnest graduate student in America, simply keeping in touch with powerful backers in her homeland.They add that she has cooperated with investigators. CNN previously reported that she was speaking to prosecutors about her boyfriend and, briefly, was questioned by the special counsel's investigation.
In the court filing Friday night, her attorneys described her attending a"presidential campaign announcement" and relaying information about it back to Torshin, an event that was"exciting." The relationship she had with Torshin"triggered" her need to notify the Justice Department of her actions working for Russians, her lawyers wrote."She did not infiltrate the NRA. She joined it, as millions have, by filling out an online form and paying a fee.
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