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deminks

(11,014 posts) Fri Oct 25, 2019, 10:03 AM Oct 2019

Russia's Red Sparrow released from prison and will be deported.

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Maria Butina was released from a US prison this morning and was taken into custody by the US Immigration and Naturalization Service, prison says; she is expected to be deported to Moscow.

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Russia's Red Sparrow released from prison and will be deported. (Original Post) deminks Oct 2019 OP

Where of course she can't testify. Coventina Oct 2019 #1

Holy Shit Skraxx Oct 2019 #2

Bill Barr is helping to clean up any loose ends Botany Oct 2019 #3

And there will be a statue of her 2naSalit Oct 2019 #5

Yup. n/t Hugin Oct 2019 #8

It's amazing that an event like this which in a Democratic administration would set the headlines... Hugin Oct 2019 #6

Wonder if she will have an accident with an open window after she gets back to Moscow? dhol82 Oct 2019 #4

Nope, it's medals and toasts. Hugin Oct 2019 #7

It's been known for some time that this would be her release date. onenote Oct 2019 #9

Coventina

(27,121 posts)

1. Where of course she can't testify.

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Fri Oct 25, 2019, 10:04 AM

Oct 2019

Skraxx

(2,977 posts)

2. Holy Shit

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Fri Oct 25, 2019, 10:05 AM

Oct 2019

Botany

(70,516 posts)

3. Bill Barr is helping to clean up any loose ends

Reply to deminks (Original post)

Fri Oct 25, 2019, 10:09 AM

Oct 2019

And with Butina gone the connections between Russian money, the NRA, Trump, and the GOP
will be harder to prove. I doubt Ms. Butina gave up much to Mueller or the FBI because if she
did then Putin will kill her when she gets back to Russia.

Barr is Trump's consigliere in this the largest crime in America's history.

Butina's boss Alexander Torshin ... he was very busy in Pennsylvania's Luzerene, County in 2016
Luzerene, County has voted blue in every election since 1998 but in 2016 it went red and back
blue in 2018,

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2naSalit

(86,646 posts)

5. And there will be a statue of her

Reply to Botany (Reply #3)

Fri Oct 25, 2019, 11:52 AM

Oct 2019

and many medals issued when she reaches mutherussia.

Hugin

(33,162 posts)

8. Yup. n/t

Reply to 2naSalit (Reply #5)

Fri Oct 25, 2019, 11:59 AM

Oct 2019

Hugin

(33,162 posts)

6. It's amazing that an event like this which in a Democratic administration would set the headlines...

Reply to Botany (Reply #3)

Fri Oct 25, 2019, 11:57 AM

Oct 2019

and cable scrollers ablaze for weeks, if not an entire Presidential term goes by with a mere whisper.

Normal is way back in the rear view mirror. Way back.

dhol82

(9,353 posts)

4. Wonder if she will have an accident with an open window after she gets back to Moscow?

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Fri Oct 25, 2019, 10:35 AM

Oct 2019

Hugin

(33,162 posts)

7. Nope, it's medals and toasts.

Reply to dhol82 (Reply #4)

Fri Oct 25, 2019, 11:58 AM

Oct 2019

She didn't testify.

She's a State Hero.

onenote

(42,714 posts)

9. It's been known for some time that this would be her release date.

Reply to deminks (Original post)

Fri Oct 25, 2019, 12:00 PM

Oct 2019

She was sentenced (by an Obama nominated judge) to 18 months minus time already served. That put her original release date at sometime near the end of the year (she has been incarcerated since July 2018). Under Federal sentencing guidelines, she was eligible to have her sentence shortened by a few months for "good behavior."

And its also been clear that she would be deported once she had finished her prison term.

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