underneath the simple charge may lie all kind of dirty money being funneled to the nra and some sort of back and forth to fill tate the political influence. butina was in a romantic relationship with paul erickson. do you think he was just a dupe? oh, i think he was. this was very typical, this falls in line with what i was saying earlier about the fail fast and fail cheap. the russian way of doing this is similar to the business emerging strategy. you throw a bunch of stuff against the wall, see what sticks and focus on this. apparently she was having come transaction with this gentleman of the nr ark. what i want to know is what is still out there that we don t know about. interesting. authorities having on butina for years.