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MelissaB

(16,420 posts)
Thu Aug 22, 2019, 06:17 PM Aug 2019

Maria Butina strikes again: CEO of Overstock resigns over Maria Butina "romance"

Patrick Byrne, the CEO of @Overstock, was one of several GOP and NRA influencers who got romantic involved with Russian spy Maria Butina. Byrne is also a critic of what Trump calls the "Deep State."






Overstock CEO resigns after revealing he had an affair with convicted Russian agent Maria Butina and writing a cryptic statement about the "deep state"






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Maria Butina strikes again: CEO of Overstock resigns over Maria Butina "romance" (Original Post) MelissaB Aug 2019 OP
Another traitor she tapped. blm Aug 2019 #1
She had herself and a stable of young Russian women around the country. Blue_true Aug 2019 #13
Good! Overstock.com is a rip-off, RW shit-entity. Dennis Donovan Aug 2019 #2
Overstock.com had quite an attractive spokeswoman a number of years ago. Aristus Aug 2019 #20
Google helped me find you the answer, lol (I was 9 when this advert came out in 2005) Celerity Aug 2019 #35
Yes it is, I hate Overstock; didn't know it's RW, another reason to avoid it. Bluepinky Aug 2019 #34
The Red Sparrow calguy Aug 2019 #3
Apparently so Sherman A1 Aug 2019 #15
More like....Passed Around? calguy Aug 2019 #23
I've been reading up on him bluedye33139 Aug 2019 #4
What did he do, besides dating a Russian spy? BigmanPigman Aug 2019 #6
He said he was involved with FBI SCantiGOP Aug 2019 #7
Yep, A1 nut job uponit7771 Aug 2019 #9
He once lost his mind and went after a businessman in Vancouver bluedye33139 Aug 2019 #10
He don't need no more crazy -- he's overstocked Blue Owl Aug 2019 #5
lol bluedye33139 Aug 2019 #11
Another one of Salt Lakes finest. Wellstone ruled Aug 2019 #8
Is there video of him singing with her? klook Aug 2019 #12
The Russian honeypot gibraltar72 Aug 2019 #14
The more overstocked they are the harder they fall grantcart Aug 2019 #16
So who wasn't she sleeping with? And how many unknowns are still to be found? Blackmail? usaf-vet Aug 2019 #17
What a leggo beast... HipChick Aug 2019 #18
That Rusky is a very popular thang RainCaster Aug 2019 #19
Butina gets busy huh and she sure has a type. nt UniteFightBack Aug 2019 #21
Deep State claims another victim! dchill Aug 2019 #22
She grabbed them by the ..... Marcuse Aug 2019 #24
For some reason, Moscow Mitch and Drumpf FEC don't want this investigated. Kid Berwyn Aug 2019 #25
To pick up an old thread scheme; 'our girl Butina 0- strikes again'! empedocles Aug 2019 #26
This guy seemed to be trying to cover his ass. nt Catherine Vincent Aug 2019 #27
Plus get a job in the Conspiracy Theory Industry. nt greyl Aug 2019 #31
The reader comments are priceless! Nt spooky3 Aug 2019 #28
She Certainly Got Around Me. Aug 2019 #29
Jesus. How many Republicans did this woman bang? O.o NCLefty Aug 2019 #30
Hope they all got herpes dalton99a Aug 2019 #32
K&R UTUSN Aug 2019 #33
Overstock CEO: FBI asked me to pursue a romantic relationship with Maria Butina muriel_volestrangler Aug 2019 #36

blm

(113,083 posts)
1. Another traitor she tapped.
Thu Aug 22, 2019, 06:21 PM
Aug 2019

She knew how to find them and how to manipulate them into betraying this nation. Deep state, my ass. That’s their go to excuse for everything these days.

Blue_true

(31,261 posts)
13. She had herself and a stable of young Russian women around the country.
Thu Aug 22, 2019, 07:31 PM
Aug 2019

A longtime tool of the KGB (or FSB now) has been sex, compromise powerful people by making sure that they get laid by a Russian agent.

Aristus

(66,437 posts)
20. Overstock.com had quite an attractive spokeswoman a number of years ago.
Thu Aug 22, 2019, 08:22 PM
Aug 2019

There was some question, among people like me who enjoyed her commercials, if she was as right-wing as the company she promoted.

I don't remember if there was ever an answer to that. But she disappeared quite abruptly, so who knows?

Celerity

(43,484 posts)
35. Google helped me find you the answer, lol (I was 9 when this advert came out in 2005)
Fri Aug 23, 2019, 05:39 AM
Aug 2019

Sabine Ehrenfeld, from Germany.

https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1782208/?ref_=nm_wrk

Born November 27, 1963 in Mannheim, Baden-Württemberg, Germany
Height 5' 8" (1.73 m)

Sabine Ehrenfeld was born and raised in Mannheim, Germany, on November 27, 1963. Her father was an investment banker with the Deutsche Bank, and her mother, a nurse, became a homemaker, and raised Sabine and her two younger sisters.

Sabine started modeling in Germany at 18, and moved to Milan, Italy, in 1983. In 1985 she lived in New York for a year, where she worked for Elite Models and started to do commercials. She has been living in Los Angeles since 1985.

Sabine has done a lot of training for acting, including voice, speech and dialect, hosting, and comedy improv training. From 1992 until 2003 she decided to do commercial work exclusively in order to be mostly a mom. She is presently gearing up to pursue TV work as an actress as well as a show host.

Sabine has appeared in hundreds of TV commercials over the last twenty years, and has also done some work in television and movies. Over the last three years she has appeared as the spokeswoman for Overstock.com.

Sabine is divorced from the father of her two children.

Known as "the girl from the Overstock.com commercials"
Has a pilot's license with 350 flight hours and flew solo from California to Montana in a Decathlon, which is a fabric covered tail wheel plane designed for aerobatic flight.
She is proficient in the use of handguns.
She's German, and besides her native language can speak Italian, French and of course, English.
Interested in: running, Yoga, rock climbing, mountain biking, martial arts, horseback riding (English Dressage & Jumping), skiing, snowboarding, swimming, rollerblading.





What’s With That Overstock.com Ad?

So low-budget it’s … mesmerizing.

https://slate.com/business/2005/02/the-overstock-com-hottie.html

SCantiGOP

(13,871 posts)
7. He said he was involved with FBI
Thu Aug 22, 2019, 06:41 PM
Aug 2019

in Russia probe, but realized it was a “deep state” operation against Trump.

bluedye33139

(1,474 posts)
10. He once lost his mind and went after a businessman in Vancouver
Thu Aug 22, 2019, 07:05 PM
Aug 2019

and ended up paying almost 2 million dollars in damages for willfully defaming/libeling the man because he hated him. Apparently spent months in a manic state, trying to ruin someone he had taken a dislike to. I'm astonished that he was able to keep his position with Overstock.

 

Wellstone ruled

(34,661 posts)
8. Another one of Salt Lakes finest.
Thu Aug 22, 2019, 06:58 PM
Aug 2019

Notice in his photo's how his Hair color changes. This Guy is a true Conspiracy Nut Job. Big money donor to the Right Wing Fringe elements of the GOP.

usaf-vet

(6,195 posts)
17. So who wasn't she sleeping with? And how many unknowns are still to be found? Blackmail?
Thu Aug 22, 2019, 07:51 PM
Aug 2019

She apparently was a girl on a mission who was willing to do what it took to accomplish that mission.

Sex and money all wrapped in a redheaded Russian agent.

Kid Berwyn

(14,947 posts)
25. For some reason, Moscow Mitch and Drumpf FEC don't want this investigated.
Thu Aug 22, 2019, 09:51 PM
Aug 2019

A patriot would want to know why Putin and his KGB approved oligarchs were funneling money through the NRA to the GOP.

Traitors, not so much.

muriel_volestrangler

(101,349 posts)
36. Overstock CEO: FBI asked me to pursue a romantic relationship with Maria Butina
Fri Aug 23, 2019, 06:29 AM
Aug 2019
(CNN)Former Overstock CEO Patrick Byrne said Thursday that the FBI directed him in the summer before the 2016 election to pursue a "romantic relationship with Maria Butina," the Russian woman who was accused of seeking to win influence in powerful Republican circles at the behest of her country's government.
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Byrne's story, as told to CNN anchor Chris Cuomo on "Cuomo Prime Time," and in earlier interviews broadcast on Fox Business News and Fox News, also includes allegations that top officials in the Obama administration, including James Comey, the former FBI director, approved of the bureau's requests of him.

It has not been verified by the agencies, and spokespeople for the Justice Department and FBI declined to comment. Reached Thursday evening by CNN, Comey called Byrne's claim "ridiculous."

A US official told CNN on Thursday that Byrne met earlier this year with Justice Department officials and shared with them similar information about a romantic relationship with Butina encouraged by the FBI. The US official said that the Justice Department officials Byrne met with found aspects of Byrne's story to be believable in part because he shared operational details that were not widely known.

https://edition.cnn.com/2019/08/23/politics/patrick-byrne-maria-butina-fbi-relationship-cnntv/index.html
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