US offers $10M reward for Russian election interference info

AP 'News' ^ | 7/29/22

[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.

[SaveFerris]

(desperate to keep the 2016 Hillary con job alive)

The liberals pretend not to know about what Durham found.

[escapefromboston]

Unless Russians hacked into the voting machines themselves then they didn’t interfere with the election. Buying facebook ads isn’t interference, anyone on the planet is allowed to buy ads and put whatever they want on them.

[familyop]

The Russians pushed against Democrats in some social media and against Republicans in other social media. That tactic is nothing new.

[Mark17]

Yep.

[Sacajaweau]

I remember this...it was a lot of cr**....Totally conjecture based on the idea that we were too stupid to separate the truth from fiction.

As I recall, there was no Boris at my election booth in 2016...and I don't expect one this year either.

[Varsity Flight]

The Judas Shekels

[Flavious_Maximus]

Only democrats are allowed to interfere in elections. Where is the reward for the capture and arrest of all the mules that interfered in the 2020 election? Why isn’t Zuckerberg and Jack Dorsey in prison yet?

What about all the Saudi money that went to elect Obama in 2008 and 2012?

[cranked]

$10 mil? LMAOGTFO with the fake ass deflection sh*t.

Most of see what you doing and know what you did for the basement dwelling dementia-ridden mofo who could not get 60 people to a rally any time during heIdiots presidential run.....but still got that alleged 81 million votes that not even the Jesus-that-could-not-walk-on-water-ObamaIdiot could get in two runs.....yep, okie dokie.

[Roccus]

None of the defendants has faced trial in the United States

I could be thinking of another such case, but didn't one of the indicted entities with a presence here in the US answer the indictment and challenge the government to go to court?
Pretty sure I remember Rush talking about it at the time saying that it would prove *interesting*.

[SgtHooper]

The rats laundering more money. The FIBbers are setting up fake sites and information right now to imply it was all Trump collusion.

[SgtHooper]

“...anyone on the planet is allowed to buy ads and put whatever they want on them.”

Wrong! Subject to the laws of this country, namely defamation, in the least.

[Bloody Sam Roberts]

Voting could never fix this type of craziness.

What is this "voting" you speak of?

[mewzilla]

Or satellite pics of the alleged war in Ukraine...

[Pollard]

Furthermore, NDI has organized over 200 international election observer delegations in over 67 countries. Through its local partners, NDI has helped train and deploy 4 million election observers in 350 elections and referenda in 85 countries and has trained 600,000 party poll-watchers in more than 50 countries. It has helped partner groups organize 400 candidate debates in over 35 countries.[7]

In the 2000's, NDI worked with election monitoring organizations such as the Committee of Ukrainian Voters to provide financial and technical assistance to develop election monitoring capabilities. This monitoring played a salient role in popular uprising against electoral fraud during the Orange Revolution.[13]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Democratic_Institute

https://www.ndi.org/board-directors

Abrams and Brazille - ideal people to "help" with Ukraine's election

But - Russia, Russia, Russia

Couple of other swamp groups that mess with other countries. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Endowment_for_Democracy | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Republican_Institute

Mostly paid for with taxpayer money.

Two dem groups and one repub group but they joined forces to "help" Ukraine.

Activists of the Orange Revolution were funded and trained in tactics of political organisation and nonviolent resistance by Western pollsters and professional consultants who were partly funded by Western government and non-government agencies but received most of their funding from domestic sources. [2] [150] According to The Guardian, the foreign donors included the U.S. State Department and USAID along with the National Democratic Institute for International Affairs, the International Republican Institute, the NGO Freedom House and George Soros's Open Society Institute. [151]

https://everipedia.org/wiki/lang_en/ukraine

Even worked with Soros' Open Society. Isn't that special?

The National Endowment for Democracy has supported democracy-building efforts in Ukraine since 1988. https://everipedia.org/wiki/lang_en/ukraine

but - Russia, Russia, Russia

[dforest]

I know, it is something from the olden days. Now we have a Rigged Democraceh.

[moovova]

It’s Trump’s fault.

When do I get my check?

[Bloody Sam Roberts]

Yes. 2020 initiated a sort of Election Fraud Arms Race.

The two sides will simply cheat their arses off to make it look like an election took place. We need only to sit in front of the boob tube to see who will be named President....after all of the kangaroo court cases, of course.

There will bnever be another fair and real election again. And the Dems will not "lose" one for a very long time.

Is that too cynical?

[Vaduz]

The State Department on Thursday offered a reward of up to $10 million for information about Russian interference.

State Department/FBI/CIA/NSA/Democrats/Media nobody found nothing about it comes down to one thing rig the farce.

[erkelly]

What about a ten million dollar reward for DEMOCRAT interference in the 2016 and 2020 elections?

[Lazamataz]

Well, it’s a good bet no one will collect.