counsel mueller last year. he was charged personally along with his companies and along with a whole bunch of russian military intelligence officials. together they were charged last year with running the online social media operation of the russian government's campaign to disrupt our last presidential election and throw it to donald trump. now when mueller and his prosecutors brought that case against those russians, the olga ga -- oligarch, nobody thought the russian defendants would see the inside of a u.s. courtroom let alone a u.s. jail. everyone thought this was a speaking indictment to let the american public know what mueller had found out about the behavior of these russians. nobody ever thought any of those defendants would ever even bother to enter a plea in congestico conjunction with this case or engage with the case or u.s. courts in any way. it came of something as a surprise when in fact, the companies hired u.s. lawyers.