12 Russian intel officers indicted for DNC hacking in Mueller investigation
By: Channel 8 Eyewitness Newsroom
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A federal grand jury on Friday returned one new indictment as part of special counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation into alleged Russian meddling during the 2016 presidential campaign, according to court officials.
The latest indictment targets 12 Russians for engaging in a sustained effort to hack networks of Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee, the Democratic National Committee, and Hillary Clinton’s Campaign. All 12 are members of the GRU, Russia’s intelligence service.
Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein announce details of the indictment at a press conference Friday afternoon.
In just over a year since his appointment as special counsel, Robert Mueller and his hand-picked team of prosecutors have filed nine indictments covering twenty individuals and three businesses, earned five guilty pleas, have two criminal cases headed to trial, and sentenced one person to prison.
President Donald Trump and his supporters have repeatedly called Mueller’s investigation a “Witch Hunt”.
Friday’s indictment comes as Rosenstein faces increased scrutiny from President Trump’s backers on Capitol Hill. House Republicans have threatened to hold Rosenstein in contempt of Congress for what they say is the Justice Department’s failure to comply in a timely manner with a subpoena for documents related to the Clinton email and Trump-Russia investigations.
The Department of Justice last Friday sent a letter to two House committees insisting it had fully complied.
