Article snippet: The special counsel probing interference in the last presidential election charged 13 Russian nationals and three Russian groups with violating criminal laws with the intent of meddling "with U.S. elections and political processes" on Friday. The 37-page indictment, signed by special counsel Robert Mueller, depicts an elaborate scheme in which some of the Russians accused allegedly came to the U.S. with the deliberate intention of undermining the American political and electoral process, including the 2016 presidential election The new indictment comes amid a wide-ranging probe by the special counsel into Russian meddling in the U.S. election and is also the first set of charges by Mueller for 2016 presidential election interference. In one case, for example, an American was paid to dress up as Hillary Clinton clad in a prison uniform and another person was hired to construct a cage on a flatbed truck — all part of a coordinated effort to organize rallies in Florida in the lead up to the presidential election. In another case, the defendants and their co-conspirators operated a twitter account using the handle @TEN_GOP in an attempt to pretend to be the Tennessee Republican Party. The handle amassed more than 150,000 followers. The actual Tennessee Republican Party said they reported this fake account to Twitter on multiple occasions. Twitter said in a House Intelligence Committee hearing in November that it took the account down and the incident helped t... Link to the full article to read more