Quote (Goomshill @ Oct 19 2020 10:54am)
I'd say more likely that Maria has inside information about something unrelated and she's willingly or unwittingly conflating it
because I can confirm that there is a DoJ press conference scheduled in one hour from now:
https://www.c-span.org/video/?477104-1/justice-department-officials-hold-news-conferenceso lets wait and see what that's about, could be indictments for random yahoos tangential to their investigation or it could be the usual 'we rounded up 200 pedophiles' thing
okay unrelated;
https://www.justice.gov/usao-edny/pr/ten-individuals-charged-50-million-russian-smuggling-schemeQuote
As set forth in the government’s court filings, the defendants allegedly engaged in a scheme to export over $50 million worth of electronic devices, including Apple iPhones, iPads and Apple Watches, from the United States to Russia. The defendants allegedly carried out this scheme by smuggling cash and merchandise via airline passengers, including current and former Aeroflot Airlines employees. Upon receiving instructions from defendant Daibagya, a resident of Russia, Aeroflot Airlines crew members and others travelled to the United States to pick up the electronic devices. Defendants Asadov, Sokhonchuk, Perevoznikov and Shadkhin, together with others in the United States, had obtained the devices, many of which had been stolen, to be sent to Russia without the required export authorizations. During the investigation, searches of luggage belonging to various Aeroflot crew members and other couriers revealed millions of dollars of electronic devices. Occasionally, defendants Daibagya and Saidov smuggled the devices themselves. For example, between August 2019 and December 2019, Daibagya took four trips from the United States transporting over 1,000 Apple products valued at over $1 million, and on October 5, 2019, Saidov carried nine suitcases containing 235 Apple products with an estimated value of about $250,000.