Putin Crony Admits to Meddling in US Election, Says It Will Continue ‘Precisely, Surgically’

On the eve of pivotal U.S. midterm elections, a shadowy Russian businessman indicted for interfering in past American elections “admitted” to having done so, and said he would continue in the future, prompting strong reaction from the State Department.

Spokesman Ned Price told reporters that Yevgeny Prigozhin’s “bold confession, if anything, appears to be just a manifestation of the impunity that crooks and cronies enjoy under President Putin and the Kremlin.”

Price said while the U.S. government has no expectation that Putin would act against Prigozhin – who is purportedly...