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35.  More than a month before the release of any documents, the Conspirators constructed the online persona DCLeaks to release and publicize stolen election-related documents.  On or about April 19, 2016, after attempting to register the domain electionleaks.com, the Conspirators registered the domain dcleaks.com through a service that anonymized the registrant.  The funds used to pay for the dcleaks.com domain originated from an account at an online cryptocurrency service that the Conspirators also used to fund the lease of a virtual private server registered with the operational email account dirbinsaabol@mail.com.  The dirbinsaabol email account was also used to register the john356gh URL-shortening account used by LUKASHEV to spearphish the Clinton Campaign chairman and other campaign-related individuals.

35.  More than a month before the release of any documents, the Conspirators constructed the online persona DCLeaks to release and publicize stolen election-related documents.  On or about April 19, 2016, after attempting to register the domain electionleaks.com, the Conspirators registered the domain dcleaks.com through a service that anonymized the registrant.  The funds used to pay for the dcleaks.com domain originated from an account at an online cryptocurrency service that the Conspirators also used to fund the lease of a virtual private server registered with the operational email account dirbinsaabol@mail.com.  The dirbinsaabol email account was also used to register the john356gh URL-shortening account used by LUKASHEV to spearphish the Clinton Campaign chairman and other campaign-related individuals.

36.  On or about June 8, 2016, the Conspirators launched the public website dcleaks.com, which they used to release stolen emails.<ref>Contemporaneoys accounts conflict; media reports of "stolen emails" originally pertained to Hillary Clinton's theft and destruction of government records.  The same term then was applied to Russian hacking, this time with Hillary Clinton being the purported victim.</ref> Before the shut down in or around March 2017, the site received over one million page views.  The Conspirators falsely claimed on the site that DCLeaks was started by a group of “American hacktivists,” when in fact it was started by the Conspirators.

36.  On or about June 8, 2016, the Conspirators launched the public website dcleaks.com, which they used to release stolen emails.<ref>Contemporaneous accounts conflict; media reports of "stolen emails" originally pertained to Hillary Clinton's theft and destruction of government records.  The same term then was applied to Russian hacking, this time with Hillary Clinton being the purported victim.</ref> Before the shut down in or around March 2017, the site received over one million page views.  The Conspirators falsely claimed on the site that DCLeaks was started by a group of “American hacktivists,” when in fact it was started by the Conspirators.

37.  Starting in or around June 2016 and continuing through the 2016 U.S. presidential election, the Conspirators used DC Leaks to release emails stolen from individuals affiliated with the Clinton Campaign.  The Conspirators also released documents they had sto len in other spearphishing operations, including those they had conducted in 2015 that collected emails from individuals affiliated with the Republican Party.

37.  Starting in or around June 2016 and continuing through the 2016 U.S. presidential election, the Conspirators used DC Leaks to release emails stolen from individuals affiliated with the Clinton Campaign.  The Conspirators also released documents they had sto len in other spearphishing operations, including those they had conducted in 2015 that collected emails from individuals affiliated with the Republican Party.