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Roger Stone's partner, Jerome Corsi, said Friday that he was negotiating with the office of the special advocate Robert Mueller.
Corsi, confirming a previous Washington Post report, declined to comment further. Last week, he publicly stated that he was waiting to be indicted by Mueller for "providing false information to the special advocate or one of the other major jurors".
The role of Corsi in the investigation largely depends on the possibility that he is an intermediary between Stone and WikiLeaks. He has been involved in Mueller's investigation for about two months and has participated in numerous interviews with investigators, handed over documents and testified before the grand jury.
Corsi could face many charges ranging from perjury to false statements of obstruction to justice. The potential charges may be related to misrepresentations about his relationship with WikiLeaks and Stone.
During the 2016 campaign, Stone publicly prided himself on having "behind-the-scenes communications" with WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, and appeared to repeatedly predict the WikiLeaks releases that made miss the race in the last part of the campaign. But two years after the victory of President Donald Trump, Stone republished these claims and said his "backchannel" was simply the host of New York radio Randy Credico sharing information about his interviews with Assange. Credico denies having served as an intermediary between the two.
The investigators are skeptical about Stone's explanations. CNN said Mueller's team is investigating the possibility that Stone has another intermediary than Credico and that Corsi may have been involved.
Stone and his lawyer, Grant Smith, told CNN last week that Mueller's team had not contacted Stone.
Last year, Corsi was aware of Stone's situation by claiming that one of his own articles for InfoWars had inspired him to predict, in October 2016, that the president from the Hillary Clinton campaign, John Podesta, would have problems. Shortly after, WikiLeaks started publishing thousands of hacked emails from Podesta.
Stone denies ever having spoken to Trump about WikiLeaks dumps before they become public. He also denies collusion with Russia.
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