Justice Department Indicts 13 Russians for Supporting Trump, Interfering with U.S. Elections
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This is all fresh-breaking stuff, so details are scant, but here’s what we know:
The Justice Department today indicted 13 Russian nationals and three Russian groups of violating criminal laws with the intent to interfere with “with U.S. elections and political processes”, according to agency.
According to the agency, “the indictment charges all of the defendants with conspiracy to defraud the United States, three defendants with conspiracy to commit wire fraud and bank fraud, and five defendants with aggravated identity theft.”
Rod Rosenstein, Deputy Attorney General, has scheduled a press conference for 1:15 p.m. Friday afternoon. More to come…
Update: Here’s the full text of the indictment. There’s some weird stuff in there:
Found the weirdest part of the Russia indictment.
Also, this show the troll farm used unwitting American citizens as pawns just for kicks!
Thank god they were so bad at this. The Kremlin hired the Home Alone robbers. pic.twitter.com/QEZuoS2AnC
— Ben Collins (@oneunderscore__) February 16, 2018
Update two: They supported Trump and even paid protestors.