New York Post
By Ben Kochman
Published Feb. 22, 2026, 6:03 p.m. ET
A love-struck suspected Moscow mole from Brooklyn who tried to infiltrate US political and media circles has pleaded guilty to lying to the feds — after drunkenly texting an FBI agent, “Catch me, baby.”
Bleached-blond, 35-year-old Nomma Zarubina was originally busted in November 2024 on charges she fibbed about her dealings with Kremlin spies and was freed on bail — until her flirty late-night messages to the G-man surfaced, and she landed behind bars in December.
“Catch me baby,” Zarubina texted the federal agent — an apparent unrequited love interest — one day at 4:17 a.m. last September in a bizarre string of missives nearly a year after her arrest.
“I am sooooo bad,” she wrote the same night — in a thread she confessed she sent while drinking heavily.
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