Maria Butina Loved Guns, Trump and Russia. It Was a Cover, Prosecutors Say.
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To her friends, Maria Butina was somebody who had nothing to hide. A 29-year-old recent graduate of American University in Washington, Ms. Butina was upfront about her three great passions: gun
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