The minority staff investigation confirms that the NRA, its officers, board members, and donors engaged
in a years-long effort to facilitate the U.S.-based activities of Maria Butina and Alexander Torshin. The
U.S. Justice Department determined the activity of those Russian nationals—one now convicted of a
felony charge of conspiracy to act as an unregistered foreign agent and the other designated by the U.S.
Treasury Department for the Russian Federation’s global malign activity, including attempting to subvert
Western democracies and malicious cyber activities—amounted to an illegal conspiracy to gain access to
American organizations through the NRA. The scope of the NRA’s support for these Russian activities
raises concerns about whether the activity in which the NRA, its officers and board members engaged
were in furtherance of the organization’s exempt purpose
