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    Maria Butina Lawyers Push For Her Release, Slam Sex 'Smears' By Feds

    Lawyers for indicted Russian agent Maria Butina are trying to win her release. They're asserting prosecutors misrepresented the facts to smear her.
    by Carrie Johnson Aug 24, 2018 2 minutes

    Lawyers for a Russian woman charged with being a foreign agent are pushing for her to be released from pretrial detention — and accusing prosecutors of "smearing her character" with allegations she was prepared to trade sex for a job.

    Maria Butina has wrongly been tarred as "as some type of Kremlin-trained seductress, or spy novel honeypot

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