‘F***ING TRAITOR’
Paul Whelan
DONE DEAL
The pair were included in a major prisoner swap between Russia and the West.
BOMBSHELL
Maria Pevchikh claimed the deal also involved the release of two U.S. citizens.
‘CLOSED FIST’
The former Marine said he was assaulted by a recent arrival at the labor camp where Whelan is serving a 16-year sentence on what the U.S. has called fabricated charges.
ART OF THE DEAL
The former president said he was offered the chance to free U.S. citizen Paul Whelan in exchange for notorious Russian arms dealer Viktor Bout.
OUT OF LUCK
The former U.S. Marine’s lawyer said he is still being held at a penal colony, while Biden insisted Russia is taking a harder line on Whelan for “totally illegitimate reasons.”
CHAIN GANG
The U.S. Marine couldn’t believe it when he was released from a Russian work-camp prison more than six years early.
DEAL OR NO DEAL
One Kremlin insider told The Daily Beast that Putin would “most probably” trade ex-Marine Paul Whelan for Russia’s “Merchant of Death,” an arms trader jailed in the U.S.