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in the indictment. you might have seen headlines about this today because it was about sex and deceit and there was therefore too juicy for anybody to avoid writing about it. you should know why the sex part of this is legally important. sounds so weird to say. i ll show you what i mean. this is the prosecution laying out their case why maria butina needs to be in jail, why she might flee, why she has to be kept in custody, can t be released on her own recognizance. in this part of the court filing from the prosecutors today, you see their headline there. number five. butina s tie to the united states is a dupe police to us relationship. during the course of this investigation the fbi has determined that butina gained access through the u.s. person 1 to an extensive network of u.s. persons who could influenceply activities in the united states.
country named colombia which we now have you good extradition with and we haven t solved the drug problem but we ve largely improved the situation in places like south florida. that was the same campaign. some of the naysayers said you re going to let them know what evidence you have on them and can t get them in the courtroom. that is a reasonable point of view which i strongly disagree with because we cannot we have to treat the effort to stop hacking like the effort to go to the moon. president kennedy said we do this not because it s easy but because it s hard. i said that. times as u.s. attorney. sure it s going to be more difficult to bring someone from china to pittsburgh for a trial. but what had we do otherwise? surrender? i wouldn t accept that. and i think tsignificance in th recent disclosures by the case by mueller is not only the
embassy in d.c. prosecutors say this, quote, due to international law and treaty restrictions, law enforcement would be prevented from stopping miss butina from entering the russian embassy. under such circumstances a passport would not be necessary for maria butina to depart the united states even with the most restrictive measures, for example, house arrest, electronic monitoring, any agreement to forfeit property or a retained passport or a third party custodian. even with a full combination confident most restrictive measures, the defendant need only seek refuge in a diplomatic facility well before pretrial services would ever be alerted let alone be able to respond. she could leave the facility, and law enforcement could not stop her or have recourse of remedy in the event miss butina decided to seek safe harbor in a diplomatic facility. saying you let her out of here, judge, she will go to the
in that matter was one in which she is not a subject. uss person 1 is the subject. the judge says, what is the basis of your contention ha that s so? the prosecutor says, it is in both conversations with counsel and with the fbi agent who is in south dakota. this appears to be the first direct russia collusion indictment we have seen in this whole scandal. u.s. persons accused of knowingly conspiring with agents of the russian government in a secret influence operation designed to affect politics in the 2016 campaign. the accused russian agent in this alleged scheme is now being held without bond. the unnamed american alleged co-conspirator apparently thought he had a real girlfriend here. prosecutors say he did not. there is also apparently another federal case, another fbi investigation already unfolding related to him, where he lives in south dakota. lots more shoes to drop there. the other important person in this indictment, the other important unnamed person,