A Russian woman who pleaded guilty to conspiring to infiltrate a gun rights group and influence US Republicans has been sentenced to 18 months and deportation.
A US federal judge has sentenced Siberian native Maria Butina to 18 months in prison for conspiring with a Russian official to infiltrate a gun rights group and influence American conservative activists and Republicans.
Lawyers for Butina, a former graduate student at American University in Washington who publicly advocated for gun rights, had asked the judge to impose a sentence of time served. "I have three degrees but now I'm a convicted felon with job, no money and no freedom," Butina added, referring to her academic degrees.
One of the two Americans referenced by prosecutors was Butina's then-boyfriend Paul Erickson, a conservative political activist who has not been charged in this case, but faces criminal charges of wire fraud and money laundering in a separate case in South Dakota.
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