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This should be re-titled, "Mueller indicts 13 Russians for not supporting Hillary!" .. When is Soros et al going to be indicted??

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by Ian Mason16 Feb 20188654
A federal grand jury in Washington, DC, under the authority Special Counsel Robert Mueller, approved charges Friday against 13 Russian nationals for offenses related to the 2016 U.S. Presidential election.

The defendants are all alleged to be part of the “Internet Research Agency,” a company the indictment alleges is based in St. Petersburg, Russia, and operates through a number of front organizations with the aim on influencing American elections.

Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein, who oversees Mueller’s special counsel investigation, announced the indictment at the main Department of Justice building in Washington, DC.

“There is no allegation in this indictment that any American was a knowing participant in this illegal activity,” Rosenstein said. “There is no allegation in the indictment that the charged conduct altered the outcome of the 2016 election.”

Special Counsel’s Office spokesman Peter Carr described the indictment as covering “13 Russian nationals and three Russian entities accused of violating U.S. criminal laws in order to interfere with U.S. elections and political processes.”

The group is alleged to have spent years, back to at least 2014, building a social media following of hundreds of thousands by playing off of existing divisions and sympathies in the American political landscape. When 2016 rolled around, the groups operatives are alleged to have disparaged Hillary Clinton, Ted Cruz, and Marco Rubio, and used its influence to support Donald Trump and Bernie Sanders.

As Rosenstein explained, the goal of the alleged conspiracy is not as simple as supporting one candidate. The conspirators are alleged to have held rallies for and against president-elect Donald Trump on the same day in November, 2016.

The 13 are alleged to have co-opted the identities of several Americans to carry out their plot, to have organized rallies in the United States under the pretense of being American grassroots groups.

Charges against the 13 defendants, some of whom are alleged to have traveled to the United States in the furtherance of their scheme, but none of whom are confirmed to be in the country now, include conspiracy to defraud the United States, conspiracy to commit bank fraud and wire fraud, and aggravated identity theft.

The exact role of each of the thirteen named defendants varies considerable, but one potential “boss” of this operation was Yevgeniy Prigozhin, who the Internet Research Agency is alleged to have paid someone to stand outside the White House in May, 2016 with a sign wishing him a happy birthday, presumably to demonstrate the power they were building in the United States.