{"id":1300657,"date":"2018-12-13T18:39:00","date_gmt":"2018-12-13T16:39:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nhub.news\/?p=1300657"},"modified":"2018-12-14T13:26:08","modified_gmt":"2018-12-14T11:26:08","slug":"russian-national-butina-pleads-guilty-to-conspiracy-against-us","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/nhub.news\/ru\/2018\/12\/russian-national-butina-pleads-guilty-to-conspiracy-against-us\/","title":{"rendered":"Russian National Butina Pleads Guilty to Conspiracy Against US"},"content":{"rendered":"

WASHINGTON (Sputnik) — Russian national Maria Butina has pleaded guilty in US court on Thursday to one count of conspiracy against the United States.<\/b>
\nButina said «yes» when asked if she knowingly engaged in a conspiracy against the United States.
According to the US Judge Tanya Chutkan, who accepted the guilty plea, Butinab faces a maximum of 5 years in prison and $250,000 fine. The judge also noted that she may be deported from the country, stressing, however, that the decision would be made by other US agencies.
The next hearing on the case to take place on 12th of February.
Butina, arrested in mid-July, previously pleaded «not guilty» to charges of acting as a foreign agent and conspiracy to act as an agent of the Russian Federation in the United States. She was residing in the country on a student visa while completing a masters degree in international relations at American University in Washington, DC.<\/p>\n