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Roger J. Stone Jr., a longtime informal adviser to President Trump, was arrested Friday by the FBI in Florida on charges that he lied and tried to tamper with a witness to hide his efforts to learn about releases of Democrats hacked emails during the 2016 presidential campaign.
Stone was charged with seven counts, including one count of obstruction of an official proceeding, five counts of false statements and one count of witness tampering.
With Stones indictment, special counsel Robert S. Mueller III has struck deep inside Trumps inner circle, charging a long-standing friend of the president. The court filing charges Stone sought to gather information about hacked emails at the direction of an unidentified senior Trump campaign official, and then engaged in extensive efforts to keep secret the details of those efforts.
The indictment centers on Stones efforts to find out when potentially damaging emails internal to Hillary Clintons campaign would be released by Julian Assange, the leader of the anti-secrecy group WikiLeaks. U.S. officials say Russian intelligence agents hacked Democrats and their email accounts and then shared them with WikiLeaks, which publicized them during the final months of the 2016 election.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/longtime-trump-adviser-roger-stone-indicted-by-special-counsel-in-russia-investigation/2019/01/25/93a4d8fa-2093-11e9-8e21-59a09ff1e2a1_story.html?noredirect=on&utm_term=.de2bba47627e
Kingofalldems
(38,496 posts)treestar
(82,383 posts)NurseJackie
(42,862 posts)2naSalit
(86,843 posts)Cirque du So-What
(25,999 posts)although Stone resembles Piltdown Man more than anyone I've ever seen in Florida.
MaryMagdaline
(6,856 posts)Javaman
(62,534 posts)Towlie
(5,328 posts)Scurrilous
(38,687 posts)With bells and whistles and revelry!!
ffr
(22,674 posts)DENVERPOPS
(8,862 posts)Don't get too excited, anyone over 50 should not expect to see any of these corrupt individuals prosecuted before you croak.....
Tarc
(10,478 posts)They be crazy down there...