Indicted political operative appeared in unlikely places
February 8, 2019
PIERRE, S.D. (AP) — Paul Erickson, the boyfriend of admitted Russian covert agent Maria Butina accused this week of fraud, has turned up in the unlikeliest of places — from landing a top spot on Pat Buchanan's 1992 presidential campaign to representing a man involved in one of the most salacious trials of the 1990s.
From his youth in Vermillion, South Dakota, Erickson parlayed a network of contacts with the College Republicans into an odyssey of business and political adventures on the fringes of celebrity over more than two decades.
He was national political director for Buchanan's ins...
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