Trump Confidant Roger Stone Indicted On 7 Counts Related To 2016 Election Attack

Trump Confidant Roger Stone Indicted On 7 Counts Related To 2016 Election Attack


https://www.npr.org/2019/01/25/615518287/trump-confidant-roger-stone-indicted-on-seven-counts-related-to-2016-election-at?utm_source=twitter.com&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=npr&utm_term=nprnews&utm_content=20190125




Roger Stone, the longtime Republican political operator and confidant of Donald Trump, has been arrested in Florida after being indicted on seven counts including obstruction, witness tampering and making false statements in connection with the Russian attack on the 2016 election. Stone will make an initial appearance at 11 a.m. at the federal courthouse in Fort Lauderdale, Florida.

The indictment, returned by a grand jury impaneled by Justice Department special counsel Robert Mueller, is the first to charge an American in connection with one of the best-known aspects of Russia's attack on the 2016 election: the theft and release of emails that embarrassed political targets including significant figures in the Democratic Party.

In the indictment, the special counsel alleges that Stone was in regular contact both with Wikileaks, listed as Organization 1, and the Trump campaign during critical times around the release of emails stolen from the DNC and a Clinton campaign official.

"After the July 22, 2016 release of stolen DNC emails by Organization 1, a senior Trump Campaign official was directed to contact STONE about any additional releases and what other damaging information Organization 1 had regarding the Clinton Campaign," the indictment reads. "STONE thereafter told the Trump Campaign about potential future releases of damaging material by Organization 1."


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