Is There a Secret Hiding in Roger Stone's Indictment?
Hours after he was roused from his Florida home in a pre-dawn raid by armed federal agents, Roger Stone, President Trump’s longtime friend and former political adviser, appeared on Fox News to announce that the charges against him were “thin indeed.” But Stone’s indictment may not be the last word from Special Counsel Robert Mueller. In fact, it may only be the opening move.
A small note stamped on Stone’s indictment suggests that more charges may be forthcoming — possibly involving Russian collusion. That note states that there is a “related case” involving Stone, the 66-year-old self-described “dirty trickster” who has Nixon’s face tattooed on his back. That “related case” is likely a much bigger criminal conspiracy involving a dozen Russian intelligence officers accused of hacking the Clinton campaign.
The earlier indictment of the Russian intelligence officers, filed in July, referenced online conversations that Stone — described as “a person who was in regular contact with senior members of the presidential campaign of Donald J. Trump” — had in August and September of 2016 with “Guccifer 2.0,” an online cutout adopted by members of the GRU, Russia’s military agency. The GRU officers also used the Guccifer 2.0 persona to send documents stolen from the Democratic National Committee in July 2016 to WikiLeaks, identified in the indictment as “Organization 1,” according to the indictment.
Peter Carr, a spokesman for the Special Counsel’s office, declined Rolling Stone’s request for comment for this story. Messages left with Stone’s attorney, Robert Buschel, were not returned.
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