The Most Shocking Moments of the New Russia Indictment, from ‘Civil War’ to ‘Fake’ Rubio to ‘Colored LGBT’

Source: Daily Beast | October 19, 2018 | Kevin Poulsen, Spencer Ackerman

Promoting conspiracies. Attacking Trump friends and foes alike. Calling for their own detention. Russian trolls’ alleged political manipulation got more targeted, and even weirder.

Federal prosecutors on Friday indicted a Russian woman alleged to be the chief accountant of Project Lakhta, a sprawling Kremlin campaign to influence politics in the U.S. and European Union. It’s an operation that the FBI, in a criminal complaint, says is ongoing.

The complaint accuses the woman, Elena Alekseevna Khusyaynova, of keeping detailed records of payouts to a social-media campaign of which the St. Petersberg-based troll farm, the Internet Research Agency, is just one component. Its chief financing, the FBI complaint continues, comes from Concord Management and Consulting, run by the oligarch Yevgeniy Prigozhin, sometimes called “Putin’s Chef.”

From April 2014 “to the present,” the indictment continues, Khusyaynova “managed financially all aspects of Project operations, which included media and influence activities directed at the United States, European Union, and Ukraine, as well as the Russian Federation.” She appears to have “kept detailed financial documents” providing some of the most specific evidence to date of the Kremlin-tied origins of an onslaught of inauthentic and inflammatory social-media posts polluting American and allied political discourse.

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