The Department of Justice announced on Friday that a federal grand jury has indicted 13 Russians on counts involving election interference, identity theft, and wire and bank fraud, all of it relating to the 2016 election and investigated by the special prosecutor’s office led by Bob Mueller.
The grand jury was convened by the federal court for the District of Columbia.
The indictment, including the names of the Russian defendants, is embedded below the video at the bottom of this post.
There are a few things to note straight off, based on the indictment. One of them is that we have known about the nature of all the election-interference charges for months.
Some of the defendants are charged with the actual “interference.” Others are charged with the ID theft and wire fraud. Those accused of interference did the following: set up fake social media accounts; used those accounts to forward
