A federal judge on Friday ordered Russian agent Maria Butina to serve 18 months in prison.
She will get credit for nine months already served.
Butina, who was arrested in 2018, had pleaded guilty to acting as an unregistered foreign agent on behalf of the Russian government.
Federal prosecutors had requested that Butina be sentenced to 18 months in prison. But her attorneys, pointing to her having been incarcerated for roughly nine months, asked that she be sentenced to no additional prison time and instead be immediately deported back to Russia.
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#BREAKING: Russian agent Butina sentenced to 18 months in prison https://t.co/C5T3wADaN9 pic.twitter.com/4l8Kp6Sgk3
— The Hill (@thehill) April 26, 2019
Why is the Attorney General of the United States pushing to send a convicted spy home to Russia without serving a day?
Can you imagine what would’ve happened if Loretta Lynch or @EricHolder did THIS‽
Pitchforks and Tiki Torches. https://t.co/b6cuthoM7L
— (((evan shapīro))) (@eshap) April 26, 2019
It seems that the Justice Department can’t get her out of the country fast enough.
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