Updated Day 540

Author: Joe Amditis

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 efforts, researched the and DNC computer networks to identify technical specifications and
  vulnerabilities."
 
-* **Page 16:** "The Conspirators, posing as Guccifer 2.0, also communicated with US. persons about the
+* **Page 16:** "The Conspirators, posing as Guccifer 2.0, also communicated with U.S. persons about the
  release of stolen documents. On or about August 15, 2016, the Conspirators, posing as Guccifer
  2.0, wrote to a person who was in regular contact with senior members of the presidential campaign
  of Donald J. Trump."
 
 * **Page 21:** "Although the Conspirators caused transactions to be conducted in a variety of currencies, including U.S. dollars, they principally used bitcoin when purchasing servers, registering domains, and otherwise making payments in furtherance of hacking activity."
 
-* **Page 25:** Two of the defendants "knowingly and intentionally" conspired to "hack into the computers of US. persons and entities responsible for the administration of 2016 US. elections, such as state boards of elections, secretaries of state, and US. companies that supplied software and other technology related to the administration of US. elections."
+* **Page 25:** Two of the defendants "knowingly and intentionally" conspired to "hack into the computers of U.S. persons and entities responsible for the administration of 2016 U.S. elections, such as state boards of elections, secretaries of state, and U.S. companies that supplied software and other technology related to the administration of U.S. elections."
 
 * **Page 26:** "In or around July 2016, KOVALEV and his co-conspirators hacked the website of a state
  board of elections ('SBOE 1') and stole information related to approximately 500,000 voters,
- including names, addresses, partial social security numbers, dates of birth, and driver?s license
+ including names, addresses, partial social security numbers, dates of birth, and driver's license
  numbers."
 
 2/ **The White House ordered the FBI to give lawmakers more access to classified information about the informant used in 2016 to investigate possible ties between the Trump campaign and Russia.** The director of national intelligence and the director of the FBI have tried to keep access to the classified documents tightly limited, but the files will now be made available to all members of the Senate and House Intelligence Committees. ([New York Times](https://www.nytimes.com/2018/07/12/us/politics/white-house-fbi-informant.html))