A federal grand jury has accused four US citizens and three Russian intelligence officers of working for the Russian government and Russian Federal Security Service to interfere in US elections, sow discord, and spread pro-Russian propaganda.
Omali Yeshitela, Penny Hess, Jesse Nevel, and Augustus Romain, Jr., all residents of St. Petersburg, Florida, were charged Tuesday with conspiring to have U.S. citizens act as illegal agents of the Russian government within the U.S. without providing prior notification to the attorney general, as required by law, according to the Department of Justice.
The Russian intelligence officers secretly funded and directed candidates for local office within the U.S., the DOJ said. According to an initial indictment seen by the federal grand jury that handed down the charges in Tampa, Florida, Ionov, Sukhodolov, and Popov conspired to influence democratic elections in the United States by secretly funding and directing the political campaign of a candidate for local office in St. Petersburg, Florida, in 2019.
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