Prosecutors are seeking an 18-month prison term, as her lawyers ask for time served and deportation.
By Spencer S. Hsu Spencer S. Hsu Investigative reporter Email Bio Follow April 26 at 6:30 AM Russian gun rights activist Maria Butina faces sentencing Friday in Washington, after her defense attorneys accused U.S. prosecutors of “sandbagging” her with last-minute espionage allegations in asking a judge for an 18-month prison term.
In her plea papers, Butina said she worked under the direction of Alexander Torshin, a former Russian government official, and with an American political operative on a multiyear scheme to establish unofficial lines of communications with Americans who could influence U.S. politics. Butina’s attorneys responded in a court a filing that they wanted the testimony thrown out, not a delay.
Butina laid out the proposal in March 2015. Over the next two years, citing the NRA’s influence on the Republican Party, she traveled to conferences to associate with Republican presidential candidates, hosted “friendship dinners” with wealthy Americans and organized a Russian delegation to attend the influential National Prayer Breakfast in Washington.
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