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"We are going to be totally cooperative, we have nothing to hide," said David Gray, Corsi's lawyer. "Although we believe the focus will be on his communications with Roger Stone, it's a hypothesis."
Corsi is the latest in a series of Stone associates to be convened by the Mueller team. Randy Credico, a comedian who is another former Stone associate, is also scheduled to appear before the grand jury on Friday.
The New York Times first reported the summons.
Stone, a longtime political advisor to President Donald Trump, was scrutinized in 2016 after claiming he had a return channel to Wikileaks. Stone has since declared that he had no contact with Julian Assange, the founder of WikiLeaks. Meanwhile, US intelligence agencies have concluded that Russian intelligence services have hacked at Democratic targets and used WikiLeaks to broadcast the material online.
During the summer of 2016, Stone tweeted that it would soon be the "moment of Podesta in the barrel", which was subsequently considered a stone warning.
In March 2017, Corsi – the former DC bureau chief for the Informal InfoWars website – wrote an article explaining that he had been the source of Stone's seemingly premonitory tweet. In his article, Corsi wrote that his own research inspired Stone's tweet.
Mr. Stone later stated that he was referring to Tony Podesta, the DC lobbyist, and John Podesta, president of the Clinton campaign, and their business relationship.
Gray, Corsi's lawyer, said his client had no communication with Assange, WikiLeaks or Guccifer 2.0, the online character who, according to US intelligence, was controlled by Russian hackers .
"There is nothing that even strikes a criminal responsibility on his part," Gray said of Corsi.
While Mueller's investigators seem to be ringing Stone, Stone said he still had not been contacted by the special council. He stated that he had no prior knowledge of hacked emails and that he was not involved in any collusion efforts related to the 2016 campaign.
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