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MSNBC | Oliver North steps down as president of NRA, won't serve second term
CNN | Oliver North: 'Informed' I will not be renominated NRA president
NRA | NRA President to Step Down as New York Attorney General Investigates
WAPOO | NRA ousts president Oliver North after alleged extortion scheme against chief executive
NBC News | NRA President Oliver North stepping down as infighting roils the gun-rights group
VANITY FAIR | N.R.A. President Oliver North steps down amid "clear crisis" of leadership
POLITICO | NRA announces North's resignation on-stage as 'crisis' hits gun lobby
REUTERS | Oliver North steps down as NRA president amid dispute over 'damaging' information
INDIANAPOLIS (Reuters) - [Immunized felon] Oliver North will step down as president of the National Rifle Association, North said on Saturday, adding he was being forced out due to his allegations that NRA leaders engaged in financial improprieties.
Butina admitted as part of her plea that she began working with former Russian official Alexander Torshin in 2015 to create a back-channel of communication between U.S. political figures [?] and Russia, a mission that she carried out by infiltrating [!] the powerful National Rifle Association.
[U.S. District Judge Tanya] Chutkan found that Butina's efforts were undertaken for the benefit of Russia at a time when the country was actively interfering in the 2016 U.S. presidential election. That [Maria Butina] failed to register as a foreign agent made her all the more likely to establish the connections that she did, the judge added. The government has conceded that Butina was not a spy in the traditional [?] sense, but says her clandestine work to collect information valuable to the Russian government nevertheless posed a national-security threat.
That [Maria Butina] failed to register as a foreign agent made her all the more likely to establish the connections that she did, the judge added.
The government has conceded that Butina was not a spy in the traditional [?] sense, but says her clandestine work to collect information valuable to the Russian government nevertheless posed a national-security threat.
The U.S. Attorney's Office for the District of Columbia handled Butina's prosecution, not special counsel Robert Mueller. Her name appears nowhere in the 448-page report Mueller produced summarizing the results of his investigation.
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