Discussion: Prosecutors Accuse Butina's Lawyers Of Improper Comments To The Press

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Driscoll seems like a little bit of a cowboy, and not the entertaining kind. Anyone know anything of his reputation?

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I love to see a little chin music tossed out there by US Attorney’s. It should sober folks right up.

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Butina has been charged with acting as an unregistered Russian agent. She has pleaded not guilty.

“I registered fully in Moscow!”

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This doesn’t come as a surprise. I saw him on Erin Burnett’s show a few weeks back and he seemed more like a pundit than an attorney. Almost at Rudy G. levels!

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Defense lawyer is under spell of sexy Russian spy woman!

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Her picture reminds me of Glenn Close’s character from “Fatal Attraction”. “I WON’T be ignored!!!111”

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Technically? He’s merely OK.

Politically a right-winger.

Will eventually be nominated to the bench by his friends in the Federalist Society.

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Russian agents don’t have to follow US laws. That’s why youknowwho is still in office!

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It happens…

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She spells her name “Maria” in English - as do all Russians whose name is Мари́я. Five letters in Russian, five in English. The government chooses to use a specialized transliteration system that results in the ridiculous spelling Mariia - is this because they want to make her seem more foreign, who knows? But why does TPM do it?

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@cervantes
He was Deputy Assistant AG of the Civil Rights Division in W. Bush’s DOJ.

It makes you wonder how a poor graduate student can afford him.

@haddockbranzini
He made it a lot higher than Rudy did, for all the good that does.

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But not to Moose and Squirrel!

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Technically, Mariya, but hey, Maria is how you say it. It’s not like Finnish where the accent is always on the first syllable.

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Oh, too bad. I had thought that Mariia would be pronounced this way:

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I believe she spells it with two "i"s. It’s also spelled that way (Mariia) in the prosecutors letter. Looks stupid to a native English speaker. I think it’s due to the backwards R in Russian is pronounced “ya” - requires two letters. The backwards N before it, is pronounced “e” as a long e.
To a Russian, it seems you need 3 letters in English to properly mimic the sound of the name. I see it often in similar Russian and Ukrainian name translations.
But yes it doesn’t look right.

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Tracey Ullman is taking this gag a little too far. She could be in real trouble.

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“Go home! Just go home, already!”

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I believe.the indictment spells it “Mariia”.

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Richard Beymer sounds like he nailed the pronunciation…all the while channeling the thoughts of all those GOP men beguiled by her gun-loving self.

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