On Aug. 14, 2021, Marc Fogel, a Butler native, Allegheny County resident and Indiana University of Pennsylvania graduate, was arrested as he arrived at a Moscow airport to begin what was supposed to be his final year as a teacher at the Anglo-American School there. “The U.
S. State Department told his family to remain silent,” according to the freemarcfogel.net website.
“They did.” As the third anniversary of that arrest has come and gone, there are those who think the State Department listened too much to its own advice — while the family and supporters of Marc Fogel stopped being silent. “We’ve never heard directly from them at any time,” Malphine Fogel, Marc’s 95-year-old mother, told The Indiana Gazette on Wednesday.
“I think they’re thinking about Marc a little bit more. I think his name is out there more and they’re aware of him, and that’s a good thing.” Malphine Fogel, of Butler, met with former President Donald Trump prior to the attempt on Trump’s life July 13 at the Butler Farm Show grounds.
Mrs. Fogel and others said she elicited a promise from Trump to bring home her son, Marc, who has been held in a Russian prison for three years of what could be a 14-year sentence. After Trump reiterated in an X conversation with Elon Musk that he would return to Butler in October, Mrs.
Fogel is non-committal on going to Trump’s promised return in October to campaign in Butler. “I think it is a little bit of a worry,” Mrs. Fogel, 95, said.
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