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Paul Ericsson was a GOP insider who met Maria Bhutina, a Russian gun rights activist who might also have been a spy and he started dating her

then Maria was called into the US Senate and she was charged with conspiracy to act as an agent of the Russian

Federation within the United States. The government alleged that Maria's

enrollment in a graduate program was a cover and that she was really working under Alexander

Torsion a powerful Russian politician making inroads with American political groups.

I think what the government saw was that you know this may be part

of an influence operation. In December 2018 Maria pleaded guilty and went to prison.

Two months later, Paul Ericsson was arrested.

The arrest really was sort of anti-climactic in a way.

At that point, I knew him, he knew me, I knew his lawyer, and so there was no reason to kick in the door with a

raid jacket and all the sort of stuff you see on TV and so it was really a matter of calling and saying

Paul I have a warrant for your arrest. I think he believed it was the government's intention of the time to indict him

for the same things that Maria was indicted for.

But Ericsson had been indicted for wire fraud and money laundering.

Charges relating to his businesses, compass care, investing with dignity, and the Bakken Oil Field Housing Project.

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