Chapman's lawyer: Businesswoman not committed spy

WASHINGTON (AP) - July 9, 2010

Robert Braun also maintains in a nationally broadcast interview that whatever tasks /*Anna Chapman*/ carried out over the past several years for her Russian handlers were "minimal under the statute with which she was charged."

Braun told ABC's "Good Morning America" Friday that "the only conduct that anybody ever claimed she ever did was to communicate on a laptop with an agent of the Russian Federation." He acknowledged she violated the law but insisted she gave the Russians "no secrets whatsoever."

Chapman is the red-haired woman whose sultry photos gleaned from social-networking sites made her a tabloid sensation.

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