DOJ drops charges against ‘Russian trolls’ after they dared demand evidence in US court (Russia Today)

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    DOJ drops charges against ‘Russian trolls’ after they dared demand evidence in US court – By Russia Today Newsroom (Russia Today) / March 17 2020

    The US is dropping the much-hyped indictment for ‘election meddling’ against a company supposedly behind the so-called Russian troll farm, closing the opening chapter of special counsel Robert Mueller’s Russiagate investigation.

    Further pursuing the case against Concord Management & Consulting LLC “promotes neither the interests of justice nor the nation’s security,” the Department of Justice wrote to the federal judge overseeing the case on Monday in a motion to drop the charges.

    DOJ lawyers cited “recent events and a change in the balance of the government’s proof due to a classification determination,” saying only that they submitted further details in a classified addendum.

     

    Concord was one of the three companies – the Internet Research Agency is another – and 13 individuals charged in February 2018 with waging “information warfare against the United States of America” using social media.

    Continue to article:  https://www.rt.com/usa/483279-concord-russiagate-charges-dropped/

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