Criminal Justice & the Rule of Law

Document: Indictment Against Mariia Butina

Quinta Jurecic
Tuesday, July 17, 2018, 5:28 PM

A federal grand jury in Washington, D.C. has returned an indictment against Mariia Butina, the Russian woman arrested for her involvement in an alleged conspiracy to "infiltrate organizations active in U.S. politics in an effort to advance the interests of the Russian Federation.” The indictment, available in full below, charges Butina with acting as an agent of a foreign power and with conspiracy to act as an agent of a foreign power.

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A federal grand jury in Washington, D.C. has returned an indictment against Mariia Butina, the Russian woman arrested for her involvement in an alleged conspiracy to "infiltrate organizations active in U.S. politics in an effort to advance the interests of the Russian Federation.” The indictment, available in full below, charges Butina with acting as an agent of a foreign power and with conspiracy to act as an agent of a foreign power.


Quinta Jurecic is a fellow in Governance Studies at the Brookings Institution and a senior editor at Lawfare. She previously served as Lawfare's managing editor and as an editorial writer for the Washington Post.

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