Investigation against Russia's involvement in to continue as judge rejects request

  • Country:
  • Russian Federation
  • United States

A federal judge on Thursday refused a request by a Russian company accused of funding a propaganda operation to sway the 2016 presidential election in Donald Trump's favour to dismiss the criminal charges brought against it by Special Counsel Robert Mueller.

The ruling by Judge Dabney Friedrich in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia comes after lawyers for the firm Concord Management and Consulting LLC had tried to argue that the indictment fails to properly allege a crime.

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