Special counsel Robert Mueller has brought charges against 13 Russian nationals and three Russian groups for interfering with the 2016 U.S. elections, the Department of Justice announced Friday.
The charges allege that the Russians posed as U.S. people, created false U.S. personas and stole the identities of real U.S. people in order to interfere with U.S. elections, including the presidential contest between Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton.
Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein will announce charges at a press conference later Friday.
The indictment also states that the named individuals staged political rallies in the United States, and while posing as U.S. grassroots entities “compensated real U.S. persons to promote or disparage candidates.”
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