Stone, a longtime adviser to President Donald Trump, was arrested in late January for lying to Congress about his contacts with Wikileaks.
WASHINGTON — Roger Stone, a longtime adviser to President Donald Trump, was found guilty on charges of lying to Congress about his contacts with WikiLeaks, obstruction, and witness tampering.
Prosecutors alleged that Stone lied to Congress about his possession of any documents, emails, or text messages regarding his conversations about WikiLeaks and the hacked emails. Additionally, Stone falsely told Congress that he had not asked his intermediaries to communicate with Assange for him and lied about talking to the Trump campaign about his contacts with WikiLeaks, according to the indictment against him.
Stone was also charged with witness tampering, in reference to his attempts to keep longtime friend and radio host Randy Credico from contradicting his testimony before Congress. Stone repeatedly urged Credico not to testify, not to turn over documents to Congress or to the FBI, and to lie, according to the indictment. He also told Credico on multiple occasions to pull a “who cooperates with a congressional investigation until his brother is threatened. .
Stone acted as essentially a WikiLeaks whisperer for the Trump campaign, prosecutors alleged. Stone told senior Trump campaign officials in the summer of 2016, after the Democratic National Committee said it had been hacked, that WikiLeaks had damaging information on the Clinton campaign and would release it soon.
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