Treasury targets Russians suspected of meddling in midterms

The Treasury Department is targeting Russians suspected of trying to influence the 2018 U.S. midterm elections.

Treasury says, however, there is no indication that they were able to compromise election infrastructure in ways that would have blocked voters, changed vote counts or disrupted vote counting. Monday's action targets for sanctions four entities, seven individuals, three aircraft and a yacht that are all associated with the Internet Research Agency and its Russian financier, Yevgeniy Prigozhin.

Treasury says the IRA used fictitious personas on social media and disseminated false information to attempt to influence the 2018 U.S. midterm elections and try to undermine faith in U.S. democratic institutions.

ThisWeekABC So, if we don't want foreigners to influence our US Elections, then WHY are Dems pushing for Mexicans and other foreigners crossing our borders to be given the right to vote Makes NO SENSE

How's that extradition request going?

ThisWeekABC Something Obama neglected to do. Thanks to realDonaldTrump we can vote with confidence.

Wait til the boss gets wind of that.

Then why did the treasury secretary insist on dropping RU sanctions

Trump admin decides to do something about foreign interference in light of Ukraine scandal

Very timely interview on cnbc with carlquintanilla and MoscowMitch regarding election security. The speaker was complaining nobody was giving Trump credit for how great the 2018 election was run. I guess he should check w/Mnuchin first before he makes statements like that.

MORE: 'There was no indication that foreign actors were able to compromise election infrastructure that would have prevented voting, changed vote counts, or disrupted the tallying of votes,' Treasury says.

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