russians directly with their actual propaganda and these sort of psychological operations they were running on behalf of trump, but he did help them indirectly. according to prosecutor, he helped them indirectly through his profitable little criminal hobby which was basically online identity theft and bank fraud. the russians who were carrying out that part of the attack on our 2016 election, they needed to move money around for elements of that attack, for things like setting up websites, and operation servers. richard pinedo s online identity theft and bank fraud business was the means by which the russians were able to do some of that moving money around. so richard pinedo will be sentenced for that tomorrow. sentencing guidelines recommend a range of 12 to 18 months in prison for the kinds of crimes to which he has plead guilty. prosecutors seem to be signaling to the judge that they don t necessarily want the judge to throw the book at him. in their last substantive filing
according to prosecutors, he helped them indirectly through his profitable little criminal hobby, which was basically online identity theft and bank fraud. the russians who were carrying out that part of the attack on our 2016 election, they needed to move money around for elements of that attack, for things like setting up websites, and operating servers. richard pinedo s online identity theft and bank fraud business was the means by which the russians were able to do some of that moving money around. so richard pinedo will be sentenced for that tomorrow. sentencing guidelines recommend a range of 12 to 18 months in prison for the kinds of crimes to which he has plead guilty. prosecutors, though, seem to be signaling to the judge that they tonight necessarily want the judge to throw the book at him. in their last substantive filing before tomorrow s hearing, prosecutors in the special counsel s office sort of went on at great length about the seriousness of the type of fraud and the t