Maria Butina cops a plea.

[pepperbear]

https://amp.cnn.com/cnn/2018/12/10/politics/maria-butina-plea/index.html

Maria Butina, an accused Russian spy who nuzzled up to the National Rifle Association before the 2016 election, appears to have reached a plea deal with the Justice Department, according to a new court filing in her criminal case.

Her attorneys and prosecutors filed a two-page request on Monday for a "change of plea" hearing before a federal judge as soon as Tuesday. "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.

A plea hearing has not yet been set. The notice Monday comes after several weeks of hints that Butina might negotiate an end to her case -- and after bumps in the case where federal prosecutors, at the height of attention on Russia's influence in American politics, accused the former graduate student of infiltrating Republican organizations in order to advance Russian interests.

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[AJT]

1. I believe you meant Maria Butina smocks a plea....

[ProudLib72]

3. And I believe it was "Maria Butina cops a feel"

[Jarqui]

2. Another guilty plea ... "nothing to see here!!"

It will be an interesting write up (if not fully redacted ..)

[mercuryblues]

4. This is what Fox news does to your brain:

I'm confused... The media has been claiming for years that the Russians were helping Trump in the 2016 election, but Russian agent Maria Butina just pled guilty to infiltrating and attempting to subvert the Republican Party and the NRA, so doesn't that mean that she was actually working against Trump and supporting the…Democrats?