Paul Erickson, the longtime GOP operative and boyfriend of admitted Russian agent Maria Butina, has been indicted by a federal grand jury on 11 counts of wire fraud and money laundering.
The U.S. Attorney’s office in Erickson’s home state of South Dakota brought the case, alleging Erickson ran a criminal scheme through a chain of assisted living homes and defrauded investors through a separate company. Erickson pleaded not guilty at a Wednesday arraignment.
The case appears unrelated to the foreign agent indictment brought against Butina by in Washington, D.C. last year.
Prosecutors in the D.C. case identified Erickson as the conduit between Butina and top officials in the world of GOP politics, including at the National Rifle Association.
Butina pleaded guilty to one conspiracy charge in that case in December, agreeing to cooperate with the investigation.
Read the full indictment against Erickson below.
Not entirely unrelated to Butina - the final set of transfers in the indictment included a payment to American University, which is where she was “studying.”
The Daily Beast has more details: https://www.thedailybeast.com/paul-erickson-russian-agent-maria-butinas-boyfriend-indicted-for-fraud
He seemed to have focused his grifting on fellow conservatives such as Brent Bozell. (Takes out tiny violin.) May every last one of these deserving fellows begin to understand the need for criminal justice reform from the inside.
I thought Butina was just a coed.
Well, you know, she was pretty cute when she fixed herself up a little bit. So it’s related mostly in the sense he was stupid about it, right?
But did he wear blackface??