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The head of a large American company resigned due to an affair with Maria Butina

The founder of billion-dollar US online retailer Overstock, Patrick Byrne, claims the FBI encouraged his romantic relationship with Maria Butina - and used him as part of a "soft coup" against Donald Trump.

Maria Butina in the 2013 year. Photo: Maria Butina's Facebook page

As a result of this peculiar turn of events, the conviction of Maria Butina, a Russian agent and arms propagandist, led to the resignation of a prominent e-commerce business executive, writes Vanity Fair.

On Thursday, Overstock.com's CEO announced his departure from the company he founded. This happened a few days after the release of a strange statement describing his connection with Butina, as well as “political espionage” against Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump. In a letter to shareholders, Bern complained that his continued presence in the company “could affect and complicate all kinds of business relationships.”

“While I believe that I did what was necessary for the good of the country, for the good of the company, I am in the unfortunate situation where I need to sever my ties with Overstock, both as CEO and as a member of the board of directors,” Byrne said in statement.

A few days after the first announcement of Bern's participation in these events, the company's share price fell by more than 40%, but after his resignation, the company's market capitalization grew by more than 8%.

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The publication calls such an outcome for Bern a “shameful end,” noting that his participation in the Russian scandal is difficult to verify. In an interview with Fox News journalist Sarah Carter last month, Berne said that Butina contacted him at FreedomFest in 2015, and he suspected she might be a Russian agent. To share his concern, Bern went to the FBI, but he was “told to continue the relationship and report back.” Over the next three years, an intimate relationship was periodically renewed between him and Butina.

Photo: video frame YouTube / Fox Business

Further, the story becomes more and more strange. Berne doubted his “substandard” relationship with the FBI and the intelligence community. He told Carter that he was “used in some kind of soft coup” against Trump. (Butina’s lawyer confirmed that they had a relationship, and the Department of Justice said he could not comment on this.)

Two weeks later, Byr appeared on the Fox Business Network and claimed to have provided evidence of a plot involving Clinton and Trump.

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"I think we're going to see the biggest scandal in American history," Byrne told host David Asman. “Everything you think about the Russia and Clinton investigations is a lie.” This was political espionage. I think [Attorney General William Barr] got to the heart of the matter."

“There is a Deep State, like a submarine, lurking just below the waves at periscope depth, watching our shipping lanes,” he continued. And a nuclear icebreaker named Bill Barr snuck up on them and hit them to the core.”

Photo: YouTube video frame / Maria Butina

Bern made an official statement last week:

“In July 2018, I put everything together. I immediately appeared before a congressman and a senior military officer in July, and before that before the Justice Department in April (after my Omaha rabbi reminded me of my responsibilities as a citizen) and before a small circle of journalists over the summer. Miss Carter was among them. Both of her stories are accurate.

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Having confirmed two articles to Miss Carter, I fulfilled the civil obligations that my rabbi reminded me of. I will no longer speak on this subject. Instead, living in places where the rule of law is absent, and I have witnessed the consequences of its absence, I plan to sit back and watch the US Department of Justice restore the rule of law in our country. ”

The "Omaha rabbi" in question is family friend, famed businessman and investor Warren Buffett, who reportedly advised Byrne to "follow his conscience."

Now Bern was following the door. Overstock soon announced that Jonathan Johnson was appointed interim CEO.

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