The idea being all she is really doing is causing more turmoil here.  More charges.  More people implicated.  More conflict and more investigations of more politicians.

If you think that has really been the plan all along it sort of makes sense.

Still, I remain outraged that the Federal Prosecutors falsely slut-shamed Maria and depicted her as some sort of Mata Hari spy-prostitute using her feminine sexual wiles to entice and entrap innocent males.

This false narrative was also leveraged to claim she had no real connection to the community and thus was a flight risk. Of course, the allegation was garbage and the Federal Prosecutors were forced to admit this had no basis in reality. One wonders whether they were wanking to Red Sparrow as they filed this libel with the court.

The only slander/libel here is your continued smearing of the professional prosecutors in this case as part of a failed attempt to portray Butina as a victim.

This was not an inadvertent omission or failure to file paperwork.  She's was acting as a foreign agent on behalf of a hostile, foreign government that attacked our democracy.  She's not a victim simply because she's a woman.  

But perhaps you're right.  Maybe her feelings were genuine and her relationship with a man old enough to be her father wasn't part of her attempts to infiltrate the NRA/Republican party.  Let's see how long it lasts after he's indicted.