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Accused Russian spy Maria Butina cooperating with federal prosecutors as part of plea deal

Butina is accused of trying to infiltrate Republican political circles and party leaders during the 2016 campaign in order to advance Russian interests,

www.cnn.com|Sara Murray and Katelyn Polantz, CNN

• She and her handler Alexander Torshin, Deputy Governor of Central Bank of Russia and former Russian senator, are lifetime members of the NRA. 
• Russia funneled $70 million to the NRA who in turn funneled money to Republican candidates such as Mitch McConnell, Scott Walker and Donald J Trump
• Butina and Alexander Torshin met with Donald Trump Jr.
• “Spanish police have turned over to the FBI wiretaps of conversations involving Alexander Torshin, a prominent Russian banker suspected of money laundering who met with President Donald Trump's eldest son, Donald Trump Jr”, Business Insider - May 26, 2018

Maria Butina, an accused Russian spy who nuzzled up to the National Rifle Association before the 2016 election, has begun cooperating with federal prosecutors after agreeing to a plea deal in recent days, according to a source familiar with the matter.

News that Butina had seemed to reach a deal with federal prosecutors first broke earlier Monday when her attorneys and prosecutors filed a two-page request on Monday for a "change of plea" hearing before a federal judge. "The parties have resolved this matter," the filing in DC federal court said Monday morning. Butina's case was brought by federal prosecutors in DC and not by Robert Mueller's team in the special counsel's office.

According to the agreement, part of which was revealed to CNN, 

Dana Rohrabacher says anyone “in this town” would meet with Russians peddling political dirt

"Putin's favorite congressman" also called the Maria Butina case "BS."

www.motherjones.com

1. Mueller singled out Rohrabacher in the indictment of Paul Manafort and Rick Gates. Gates pleaded guilty and outed Rohrabache and others.
2. For two decades, Republican Rep. Dana Rohrabacher has been of value to the Kremlin, so valuable in recent years that the F.B.I. warned him in 2012 that Russia regarded him as an intelligence sourceworthy of a Kremlin code name., NYTimes
3. Rohrabacher has earned the moniker as “Putin’s favorite congressman.” for being Pro Putin in everything dealing with Russia 
4. Rohrabacher met with accused Russian agent Maria Butina in St. Petersburg in 2015, The Mercury News
5. Rockefeller heir, George O'Neill brought Paul Erickson, Alexander Torshin, and Maria Butina together with Reps. Rohrabacher and Thomas Massie (R-KY) for a lavish dinner in Washington, Think Progress
6. “There’s two people I think Putin pays: Rohrabacher and Trump,” Republican Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy infamously remarked on an open mic in 2016, according to the Washington Post. *** This was a month BEFORE the media reported on the DNC server was hacked.
7. Rohrabacher “helped get $30 million into NRA coffers from Russian mob boss Torshin....Torshin literally got an award from Putin for conning people like Dana.”,  genereaux‏ @genereaux64
8. Rohrabacher was practically the only Republican on Capitol Hill who defended Trump’s recent press conference with Putin.