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Moscow: Maria Butina is being framed

By Joel Gehrke
Published July 18, 2018 9:59pm ET
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Moscow: Maria Butina is being framed
This courtroom sketch depicts Maria Butina, in orange suit, a 29-year-old gun-rights activist suspected of being a covert Russian agent, listening to her attorney Robert Driscoll, standing, as he speaks to Judge Deborah Robinson, left, during a hearing in federal court in Washington. | (Dana Verkouteren via AP)

A Russian woman accused in a salacious case of working as an unregistered foreign agent is being framed by the Justice Department, according to the Russian Foreign Ministry.

“It seems that the FBI is conducting a political put-up job instead of carrying out its duty to fight crime,” Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said Wednesday.

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