U.S. prosecutors on Friday asked a federal judge for permission to move Maria Butina to and from jail for ongoing interviews, including potentially to testify before a grand jury, in a filing intended to be sealed that appeared on the public docket for her case. As part of her plea deal, she agreed to cooperate with prosecutors. A previous travel authorization from Judge Tanya S. Chutkan of the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia expired Dec. 6. Butina’s defense joined the request for a “follow-on order,” prosecutors wrote. His lawyer William Hurd said in a statement this week that Erickson “has never done anything to hurt our country and never would.”

Source: Washington Post December 15, 2018 00:19 UTC