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Stone was indicted in January after the investigation, led by special counsel Robert Mueller, found that he lied about his connections with Wikileaks and his communications with the Trump campaign about the organization. Stone was also accused of attempting to influence Mueller witness Randy Credico, who was in contact with Wikileaks founder Julian Assange during the campaign.
Stone will be sentenced in February 2020.
In July 2016, Wikileaks published a trove of documents stolen from the Democratic National Committee. Stone’s indictment said he notified the Trump campaign of potential future releases of material from Democratic sources.
Former Trump campaign officials Steve Bannon and Rick Gates testified
in the trial that the campaign viewed Stone as a potential source of
inside information regarding Wikileaks’ operation, at a time when the
campaign was eager to obtain damaging information on rival Hillary
Clinton. However, Stone has repeatedly maintained he had no special
access to Wikileaks, and that his interest in the organization’s
possible information dumps stemmed from public reports that indicated
the organization was preparing to release documents on Clinton and the
Democrats.
All the charges against Stone concerned his relationship to the
Mueller investigation itself. In particular, Stone was accused of
attempting to intimidate Credico, a witness for the investigation, by
threatening Credico’s dog and sending a host of other harassing
messages, some of which encouraged Credico to commit suicide.“I’m going to take that dog away from you,” Stone wrote to Credico in a text sent April 9, 2018. “Not a fucking thing you can do about it either, because you are a weak, broke, piece of shit. I will prove to the world you are a liar.”
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