It's the "Animal House" case. The defendant(s) are Concord Management and Consulting, LLC, or "Concord", which is a Russian-owned company, with central offices in St Petersburg, Russia. At the top of this company, Yevgeny Prigozhin, commonly referred to as "Putin's chef." The case is being tried in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia; presiding, Her Honor, Judge Dabney L. Friedrich.
The way that this aspect of the case has been explained to me is that the defense lawyers for the Russia-based firm have used the judicial process of discovery to obtain access to at least 1000 electronic documents that are part of Team Mueller's package of evidence against Concord. There are other evidentiary documents that the Special Counsel's Office has not been willing to reveal to the defense lawyers, on the grounds of U.S. national security requirements.
These electronic documents have become raw material for Russia's troll farms--especially, the notorious, Moscow-based Internet Research Agency--as part of a continuing effort to use social media platforms and Russian state-controlled media outlets, to try to discredit the Mueller investigation. Some of the documents have been reproduced in altered versions that are crafted to create the impression of serious lapses and mistakes in the Mueller team's case against Concord.
It's not clear to me whether the defense lawyers voluntarily shared these documents with persons that they knew to be part of the Russian disinformation campaign, or whether the documents were hacked from the defense lawyers computer system(s).
When the Special Counsel's Office first went public with their indictments against Concord, Mueller "enthusiasts" did not expect the Russian firm to set up a team of defense lawyers and defend the case in the U.S. justice system.
There is the Yahoo! news report already cited in the previous message, and this, from NBC News:
"'It's some galaxy brain stuff they wanted us to believe:' How Russia's effort to sabotage Mueller's investigation backfired."Ben Collins for NBC News; January 30, 2019.
https://www.nbcnews.com/tec...d-us-believe-n964961| | | quote | Federal prosecutors said on Wednesday that special counsel Robert Mueller’s office was subject to a Russian disinformation campaign that intended to discredit his investigation into the Kremlin’s meddling in the 2016 election.
The Kremlin-backed disinformation campaign that targeted Mueller’s office failed to gain any traction, however, as the contents of a fake trove of the special counsel’s files were immediately dismissed as largely fabricated by the reporter and researcher who received them.
The fake documents were sent to ThinkProgress reporter Casey Michel and independent disinformation researcher Josh Russell in November in direct messages from a Twitter account called @HackingRedstone. The messages’ sender claimed to be “anonymous hackers.”
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