Accused Russian agent Maria Butina never offered to trade sex for professional favors, her lawyer said Wednesday, rebutting a key element of the Justice Department case that she was part of a Kremlin operation to push conservative American political leaders toward more Kremlin-friendly positions.
“We have no idea what the government is talking about,” lawyer Robert Driscoll told a federal judge in Washington at a status hearing for the 29-year-old Russian gun-rights activist. “We don’t believe it’s true.”
