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US offers $10M reward for Russian election interference info
AP 'News' ^ | 7/29/22

Posted on 07/29/2022 2:41:07 AM PDT by Libloather

WASHINGTON (AP) - The State Department on Thursday offered a reward of up to $10 million for information about Russian interference in American elections, including a close associate of Russian President Vladimir Putin and a troll farm that officials say fueled a divisive social media campaign in 2016.

The reward, offered by the department’s Rewards for Justice program, seeks information about the Internet Research Agency, Yevgeniy Prigozhin - a wealthy businessman whose ties to Putin earned him the nickname “Putin Chef” - and other entities involved in interfering in the 2016 U.S. election won by Republican Donald Trump.

Prigozhin and 12 other Russians were indicted along with the IRA in 2018 as part of special counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation into whether Russia had coordinated with the Trump campaign to sway the election. The defendants were accused of a huge but hidden social media trolling campaign aimed at sowing discord on hot-button issues and at helping Trump defeat Democrat Hillary Clinton. Officials say Prigozhin provided funding for the IRA through companies he controlled.

None of the defendants has faced trial in the United States. The Justice Department in 2020 moved to drop charges against two Russian firms named in the indictment, saying it had concluded that a trial against a corporate defendant, with no presence in the U.S. and no prospect of meaningful punishment even if convicted, would likely expose sensitive law enforcement tools and techniques.

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Conspiracy; History; Local News
KEYWORDS: 2016; election; electioninterference; hillary; reward; russia; russiacollusion; russian
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Maybe there should be a reward for anyone who asks Cankles about her Russian collusion hoax.
1 posted on 07/29/2022 2:41:07 AM PDT by Libloather
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To: Libloather

Winning that amount from Publishers Clearing House would be a more noble thing to do.


2 posted on 07/29/2022 2:47:53 AM PDT by OttawaFreeper ("The Gardens was founded by men-sportsmen-who fought for their country" Conn Smythe, 1966 )
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To: Libloather

These people are truly insane


3 posted on 07/29/2022 2:48:33 AM PDT by HollyB
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To: OttawaFreeper

I wonder if false witnesses will come out of the woodwork now?


4 posted on 07/29/2022 2:49:51 AM PDT by Mark17 (Retired USAF air traffic controller. Father of USAF pilot. USAF aviation runs in the family )
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To: Libloather

Anybody collected the “Real Nicole Brown Simpson killer Reward” yet?


5 posted on 07/29/2022 2:59:13 AM PDT by traditional2 (lets go B*and*n)
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To: Libloather

6 posted on 07/29/2022 2:59:28 AM PDT by ClearCase_guy (We are already in a revolutionary period, and the Rule of Law means nothing. It's "whatever".)
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To: HollyB

Where’s the award for telling the truth about the Red Chinese and Ukrainian bribes of Hunter Biden with the pass throughs to his father, the “president”?


7 posted on 07/29/2022 3:02:27 AM PDT by laconic
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To: Libloather

There really is no hope for this country as long as these mentally ill people are in it.

Voting could never fix this type of craziness.


8 posted on 07/29/2022 3:04:06 AM PDT by dforest
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Where’s the award for telling the truth about the Red Chinese and Ukrainian bribes of Hunter Biden with the pass throughs to his father, the “president”?

Probably get you 75 years in prison. /S

9 posted on 07/29/2022 3:10:12 AM PDT by Mark17 (Retired USAF air traffic controller. Father of USAF pilot. USAF aviation runs in the family )
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To: Libloather

AMEN!!!! NO ONE has asked Hilliary about this!!


10 posted on 07/29/2022 3:13:06 AM PDT by Ann Archy (Abortion....... The HUMAN Sacrifice to the god of Convenience.)
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To: Libloather

They always refer to the “Russian interference” from the debunked 2016 election fraud perpetrated by Hillary’s gang

They are soooo clever.


11 posted on 07/29/2022 3:15:31 AM PDT by Maris Crane
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Didn't they try this already?

And haven't they been saying (for the past two years) that questioning the results of an election is tantamount to treason, or some other horrible, unpatriotic crime against the US?

12 posted on 07/29/2022 3:17:13 AM PDT by LIConFem (Read up on Russia's Oct, 1917 Revolution... And prepare.)
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The Deep State is really grasping at straws lately. I think the midterms frighten them bigly.

In a presidential election, you can swing the outcome just by queering a handful of crucial precincts in swing states. The Kennedy machine showed us that in 1960 (in 2020 remember the Negress in Fulton County feeding the same stack of ballots into the tabulator, over, and over, over again?).

However, in an off year election, you might be able to queer a couple of contests, but the country is too big to fix all the congressional races. The Deep State is relegated with throwing their fecal matter against the wall to see what sticks. Just look at their panic; today they denied that we are in a recession, tossing out all normal accepted measures of recession—prop up the narrative.

13 posted on 07/29/2022 3:18:28 AM PDT by Governor Dinwiddie (LORD, grant thy people grace to withstand the temptations of the world, the flesh, and the devil.)
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This is diabolical. Nazi level agitprop.

This is right-in-your-face political subversion.


14 posted on 07/29/2022 3:19:52 AM PDT by LongWayHome
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2000 Mules proves lots of election interference, but not by Russsia.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c9zW8gXVFBo


15 posted on 07/29/2022 3:20:37 AM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum (Contempt for pre-born human life breeds contempt for post-born human life.)
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To: Libloather

No justice yet in the Russia collusion hoax yet somehow were supposed to be interested in what Russia was doing online six years ago? This is part of the Putin Price Hike strategy to avoid Joe being responsible for the state of his economy


16 posted on 07/29/2022 3:21:56 AM PDT by newzjunkey (“We Did It Joe!” -The Taliban / “Thanks Joe!” -Puti)
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To: Mark17

Of course there will be false “informants” with no PROOF. And, of course, the information, unverified, will be leaked to the MSM. This tells you that the DOJ and Intel Agencies have nothing, and have had nothing for years to prove Mueller’s bogus claim. Desperation is telling in this announcement. And notice that the government is desperate to keep the 2016 Hillary con job alive.


17 posted on 07/29/2022 3:22:03 AM PDT by usnavy_cop_retired (Retiree in the P.I. living as a legal immigrant)
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...and other entities involved in interfering in the 2016 U.S. election ...

Nothing about 2020 though, eh?

18 posted on 07/29/2022 3:22:54 AM PDT by Yo-Yo (Is the /Sarc tag really necessary? Pray for President Biden: Psalm 109:8)
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To: Libloather

Is there nothing they can do to stop the coming storm?


19 posted on 07/29/2022 3:23:26 AM PDT by Dogbert41 (Fill your lamps!)
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To: Libloather

A reward for info on the baseless accusation of Russian meddling.

The unfounded theory.
The debunked claim.

Seems like we have heard all this just recently.

Huh.

I’d laugh but these idiots are serious and it ain’t funny no mo.


20 posted on 07/29/2022 3:24:04 AM PDT by Adder (Dumblecrats: Spending $$ we don't have on crap we don't need for people who pay no taxes.)
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