The Justice Department opposes the novel claim by Stone that Congress funded ‘independent counsels’ not ‘special counsels.’
By Spencer S. Hsu Spencer S. Hsu Investigative reporter Email Bio Follow May 3 at 9:56 PM U.S. prosecutors urged a judge Friday to reject Trump confidant Roger Stone’s request to throw out his indictment in special counsel Robert S. Mueller III’s Russia investigation, including rejecting Stone’s claim that the Justice Department improperly funded the probe using money Congress set aside for “independent” instead of “special counsels.
Stone, 66, who has pleaded not guilty to charges of lying to Congress and obstructing justice, argued via his attorneys that Congress allowed the independent counsel statute to expire in 1999. Mueller was appointed special counsel under rules the Justice Department set up later, but Stone claims Congress should have changed its funding law.U.S.
Even if there were a technical error, prosecutors said, Stone’s proposal would do more public harm than good. The seven-count grand jury indictment of Stone was valid; the investigation, charge, and prosecution were authorized by and carried out with other Justice Department personnel; and the agency would have funded Mueller’s using other money, they wrote.Stone faces trial Nov.
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