Listening to a televised discussion of the American presidency and Congress, one guy referred to Congress as having become "supine."
------------------ supine, from online dictionary:
adjective
1. Lying on the back, face upward.
2. Inactive, passive, or inert, especially from indolence or indifference.
3. [of the hand] having the palm upward...
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Mueller indictment (continued)
[highlights provided for readers who want to skim]
73. In or around August 2016,
KOVALEV and his co-conspirators hacked into the computers of a U.S. vendor ("Vendor 1") that supplied software used to verify voter registration information for the 2016 U.S. elections.
KOVALEV and his co-conspirators used some of the same infrastructure to hack into Vendor 1 that they had used to hack into SBOE 1.
74. In or around August 2016, the Federal Bureau of Investigation issued an alert about the hacking of SBOE 1 and identified some of the infrastructure that was used to conduct the hacking. In response,
KOVALEV deleted his search history. KOVALEV and his co-conspirators also deleted records from accounts used in their operations targeting state boards of elections
and similar election-related entities.
75. In or around October 2016,
KOVALEV and his co-conspirators further targeted state and county offices responsible for administering the 2016 U.S. elections.
For example, on or about October 28, 2016, KOVALEV and his co-conspirators visited the websites of certain counties in
Georgia, Iowa, and Florida
to identify vulnerabilities.
76. In or around November 2016 and prior to the 2016 U.S. presidential election, KOVALEV and his co-conspirators used an email account designed to look like a Vendor 1 email address to send
over 100 spearphishing emails to organizations and personnel involved in administering elections in numerous Florida counties.
The spearphishing emails contained malware that the Conspirators embedded into Word documents bearing Vendor 1's logo.
Statutory Allegations
77. Between in or around June 2016 and November 2016, in the District of Columbia and elsewhere, Defendants OSADCHUK and KOVALEV, together with others known and unknown to the Grand Jury,
knowingly and intentionally conspired to commit offenses against the United States,
namely:
a. To knowingly access a computer without authorization and exceed authorized access to a computer, and to obtain thereby information from a protected computer, where the value of the information obtained exceeded $5,000, in violation of Title 18, United States Code, Sections 1030(a)(2)(C) and 1030 (c)(2)(B); and
b. To knowingly cause the transmission of a program, information, code, and command, and as a result of such conduct, to intentionally cause damage without authorization to a protected computer, and where the offense did cause and, if completed, would have caused,
loss aggregating $5,000 in value to at least one person during a one-year period from a related course of conduct affecting a protected computer, and damage affecting at least ten protected computers during a one-year period, in violation of Title 18, United States Code, Sections 1030(a)(5)(A) and 1030(c)(4)(B).
78. In furtherance of the conspiracy and to effect its illegal objects, OSADCHUK, KOVALEV, and their co-conspirators committed the overt acts set forth in paragraphs 67 through 69 and 71 through 76, which are re-alleged and incorporated by reference as if fully set forth herein.
All in violation of Title 18, United States Code, Section 371.
FORFEITURE ALLEGATION
79. Pursuant to Federal Rule of Criminal Procedure 32.2, notice is hereby given to Defendants that the United States will seek forfeiture as part of any sentence in the event of Defendants' convictions under Counts One, Ten, and Eleven of this Indictment.
Pursuant to Title 18, United States Code, Sections 982(a)(2) and 1030(i), upon conviction of the offenses charged in Counts One and eleven, Defendants NETYKSHO, ANTONOV, BADIN, YERMAKOV, LUKASHEV, MORGACHEV, KOZACHEK, YERSHOV, MALYSHEV, OSADCHUK, POTEMKIN, and KOVALEV
shall forfeit to the United States any property, real or personal, which constitutes or is derived from proceeds obtained directly or indirectly as a result of such violation, and any personal property that was used or intended to be used to commit or to facilitate the commission of such offense.
Pursuant to Title 18, United States Code, Section 982(a)(1), upon conviction of the offense charged in Count Ten, Defendants NETYKSHO, ANTONOV, BADIN, YERMAKOV, LUKASHEV, MORGACHEV, KOZACHEK, YERSHOV, MALYSHEV, OSADCHUK, and POTEMKIN shall forfeit to the United States any property, real or personal, involved in such offense, and any property traceable to such property.
Notice is further given that, upon conviction, the United States intends to seek a judgment against each Defendant for a sum of money representing the property described in this paragraph, as applicable to each Defendant (to be offset by the forfeiture of any specific property).
Substitute Assets
80. If any of the property described above as being subject to forfeiture, as a result of any act or omission of any Defendant --
a. cannot be located upon the exercise of due diligence;
b. has been transferred or sold to, or deposited with, a third party;
c. has been placed beyond the jurisdiction of the court;
d. has been substantially diminished in value; or
e. has been commingled with other property that cannot be subdivided without difficulty;
it is the intent of the United States of America, pursuant to Title 18, United States Code, Section 982(b) and Title 28, United States Code, Section 2461(c), incorporating Title 21, United States Code, Section 853, to seek forfeiture of any other property of said Defendant.
Pursuant to 18 U.S.C. §§ 982 and 1030(i); 28 U.S.C. § 2461(c).
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Robert S. Mueller, III
Special Counsel
U.S. Department of Justice
A TRUE BILL:
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Foreperson
Date: July 13, 2018
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...and that's it. Nothing missing there, except maybe the partridge in the pear tree. ...
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