the Russians permitted this woman to write a letter from jail?
Why was she in Russia?
Such a bizarre episode.
Gonna give ‘em a pass on “...pleas with...”?
Why wouldn't they?
Why was she in Russia?
IIRC, some rich oligarch flew the team out there to play an exhibition game.
“Why was she in Russia?”
She competes for foreign teams in leagues across the pond almost every year when the WNBA is between seasons. Two years ago she played for a Chinese league team for 4 months and made $600K. But the big money for women’s basketball is in Russian leagues. And with her size and teachings she was an easy entice overseas for short leagues. Money talks. And she’s been doing these leagues for years and knows drugs are not legal at all to transport and the foreign countries don’t like Americans, especially homosexuals, coming in and creating attitudes of the citizens just by their appearance and outlook. She had to be well aware she was a target and was either stupid or arrogant not to know or care.
Biden did promise to get her out, but just like everything else he does, it didn’t happen and no one is seeing anything moving in that direction. She’ll be lucky if they don’t hang her before Biden thinks about how he is going to get a criminal out of a Russian jail.
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