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Special counsel Jack Smith has filed a new indictment against Donald Trump over his efforts to undo the 2020 presidential election.
A Roanoke federal grand jury sealed an indictment earlier this month, charging 24 people from the Roanoke area with wire fraud, conspiracy to commit wire fraud, money laundering, making false statements and fraud connected to an emergency benefits program, according to the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Western District of Virginia.
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(AP Photo/Andrew Harnik, pool)WASHINGTON – The Justice Department announced charges Monday against Russian intelligence officers in cyberattacks that targeted a French presidential election, the Winter Olympics in South Korea and American businesses. The seven-count indictment is the most recent in a series of Justice Department prosecutions of Russian hackers, often working on behalf of the government. One of the six charged in the case announced Monday was among the Russian military intelligence officers charged with hacking in special counsel Robert Mueller's investigation into Russian election interference. The timing of the indictment was unrelated to the upcoming election in the U.S., said Assistant Attorney General John Demers. The indictment accuses the officers, for instance, of hacking into the 2018 Winter Olympics in South Korea after Russia was punished by the International Olympic Committee for a vast doping conspiracy.
