Russian spy accused of running a propaganda operation in New York married a celebrated Princeton economist to stay in the US and target his influential friends.
On March 8, 2022, the Department of Justice (DOJ) announced its filing of a Complaint charging dual Russian and U.S. citizen Elena Branson with several counts, including conspiracy to.
Although seemingly inconsequential to the U.S. Justice Department’s case against a woman accused of acting as a secret Russian agent, the federal indictment includes an erroneous historical account of Kauai’s Russian Fort Elisabeth.
Elena Branson, 61, is accused of flouting the Foreign Agent Registration Act, or FARA, and failing to properly inform the U.S. government she was working on behalf of the Kremlin.