Attorney For Maria Butina Says 'Whole Story' Is Still Not Known About His Client
Robert Driscoll told NPR that Butina, who is facing charges of conspiring to act as a Russian agent, will "be proven innocent in this case."
Sitting in an orange jumpsuit in a Washington courtroom this week, Maria Butina was either an agent of the Russian government, as federal prosecutors allege, or a just an international graduate student targeted for her nationality, as her defense contends.
Butina on Monday with conspiring to defraud the United States and acting as an unregistered foreign agent. She to the federal district court judge who presided over a pretrial detention hearing this week.
