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Russian operative Maria Butina sentenced to 18 months in prison The American University grad student and gun rights activist worked as an unregistered foreign agent for the Kremlin. ............... But Judge Chutkan didn't buy Butina's claims of innocent ignorance of the law. "She was doing this under the direction of a Russian official ... at a time that Russia was looking to interfere with the U.S. political process," the judge said. “This was no simple misunderstanding by an overeager foreign student," she said. Butina admitted to working with her Republican operative boyfriend Paul Erickson — identified in court papers as "U.S. Person 1" — at the behest of a Russian official in order "to establish unofficial lines of communication with Americans having power and influence over U.S. politics … for the benefit of the Russian Federation," according to court papers. Butina also considered sex as part of her arsenal to gain influence. "For example, on at least one occasion, Butina offered an individual other than U.S. Person 1 sex in exchange for a position within a special interest organization," prosecutors wrote in opposing her bail last year. "Further, in papers seized by the FBI, Butina complained about living with U.S. Person 1 and expressed disdain for continuing to cohabitate with U.S. Person 1." ......... nbcnews.com