Mueller Indicts 13 Russians, 3 Groups for Election Meddling

In his first public indictment of 2018, special counsel Robert Mueller on Friday announced charges against 13 Russian nationals and three organizations for conspiring in secret to destabilize America’s political institutions.

The indictment, signed by Mueller and approved by the special counsel’s grand jury, charges that beginning in 2014, Russians traveled to America under false pretenses, committed identity theft against real American citizens, and set up fraudulent bank accounts and payments in order to foment online and real-world political discord among the American people.