Maria Butina's "boyfriend" is in prison

[suegeo]

I missed this in July 2020. Another slimy GOP pig is in prison.

[link:https://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/south-dakota-man-linked-russian-spy-sentenced-fraud-71637585|]

SIOUX FALLS, S.D. -- A former conservative operative who was once romantically linked to a Russian agent was sentenced Monday to seven years in federal prison in South Dakota.

Paul Erickson pleaded guilty to wire fraud and money laundering as part of fraudulent investment schemes he operated for many years, the Argus Leader reported.

Erickson was not charged in connection to his romantic relationship with Maria Butina, who was deported in October after admitting she sought to infiltrate conservative U.S. political groups and promote Russia’s agenda.

This piece says he's in federal prison in So Dak. For 7 years.

He must have been moved to Duluth? I couldn't find him in So. Dak.

[Harker]

1. Oh. Thought you meant Rick Sanctimonious. n/t

[suegeo]

3. I didn't mean JD Gordon, advisor to Rump campain, either.

He invited Maria Butina to a Styk concert.

[link:https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/onpolitics/2018/08/03/jd-gordon-maria-butina-styx-concert/903701002/|]

That girl got around!

[Harker]

5. She made so many feel so special. n/t

[StClone]

2. Putin was upset Butina Admitted

In meddling, but she was a hero once back in Russia.

[stillcool]

4. typical...

South Dakota man linked to Russian spy sentenced for fraud
A former conservative operative who was once romantically linked to a Russian agent has been sentenced to seven years in federal prison in South Dakota
ByThe Associated Press
July 6, 2020, 5:00 PM

SIOUX FALLS, S.D. -- A former conservative operative who was once romantically linked to a Russian agent was sentenced Monday to seven years in federal prison in South Dakota.
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Judge Karen Schrier listed former classmates, family members and even Erickson's godmother as victims of his investment schemes.

“You’re a thief, and you have betrayed your friends and family, pretty much everyone you know,” Schreier said.
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Erickson, described by one of his victims as a “charismatic gentleman,” was the national political director for Pat Buchanan’s challenge to President George H. W. Bush in the 1992 Republican primary. He also worked as a media adviser to John Wayne Bobbitt, the Virginia man whose wife cut off his penis with a kitchen knife in 1993. And he joined with Jack Abramoff, a Washington lobbyist later imprisoned for corruption, in producing an anti-communist action movie.

[OnDoutside]

6. Important to note he went to jail for the fraud, not the channeling of Russian money through the NRA

to the GOP candidates, so that's a possible follow up next January.

[suegeo]

7. Kick

Republicans are mobbed up