Federal prosecutors submitted a request Friday that FBI officials be allowed to transport Maria Butina for interviews in DC and Virginia in the coming weeks, but no one was supposed to know about it.
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It appears prosecutors wanted to keep secret the logistics regarding her upcoming cooperation, but the paperwork filed was distributed publicly on Friday instead of "under seal" as marked.
Minutes after the document was blasted through the court's online filing system, the filing became unavailable to the public and it has since been removed from the docket.
Butina pleaded guilty Thursday to acting illegally as foreign agent in the United States.
US attorneys may want to interview Butina in their offices well into January, according to the filing. She may also be requested to appear at the grand jury in Washington, according to the filing, which is a request to a federal judge to allow the currently detained Russian to be transported by the FBI for cooperation interviews.
"The purpose of the transfer is to interview the Inmate concerning an ongoing federal investigation," the filing says.
Butina's lawyers will accompany her at the interviews and she will wear restraints when she is not in the Alexandria, Virginia, detention facility.
Similar requests for Butina to attend interviews with federal prosecutors "concerning an ongoing federal investigation" date back to late September, before she formally decided to plea.
Details of Maria Butina's cooperation quickly removed from court website (CNN)