[Regnum] 20 Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) officers came to search the home of an RT employee working in Miami.
It is noted that the security forces came to her house at about 05:00, when she was sleeping. The woman was not allowed to get dressed, she was beaten and searched.
"They searched the entire body first, I don't know what they wanted, they had a separate warrant specifically for searching the body. They touched everything, so to speak," RT quotes her as saying.
After the search, the agency employee was interrogated for about five hours. According to her, she was asked what kind of person RT editor-in-chief Margarita Simonyan is, "a good person or a bad person."
"They also asked me if Margarita had ever met (Russian President Vladimir ) Putin. And when? I said, 'Well, Google it.' They asked what she liked to eat," the woman said.
She also said she was asked questions about the funding of the news agency and whether the channel received money from the Kremlin. No formal charges were brought against her.
The woman left the United States for safety reasons, the Russian consul helped her buy a plane ticket, and she flew to Russia via a third country.
As reported by the Regnum news agency, on September 4, the United States imposed sanctions against the Rossiya Segodnya media group, RIA Novosti, Sputnik, as well as the RT and Simonyan TV channels. Washington explained this decision by the fact that the blacklisted media outlets were allegedly involved in interfering in the American presidential elections.
On September 6, Russian Presidential Press Secretary Dmitry Peskov called the new US accusations and sanctions against Russia an attempt to put pressure on Moscow and the Russians. He stressed that Russia strongly condemns this line and considers it unacceptable.
On September 6, American journalist Tucker Carlson said that Washington was imposing sanctions on Russian media in an attempt to silence criticism of the Biden administration. The journalist stressed that he did not understand how this could happen, adding that the current American administration had made too many unprecedented decisions.