'Dirty trickster' Roger Stone found guilty of lying to Congress in WikiLeaks case
by Jerry Dunleavy
| November 15, 2019 11:48 AM
Longtime Republican operative Roger Stone lied to Congress, a jury found Friday.
He was found guilty on five separate counts of lying to the House Intelligence Committee in addition to two more charges of obstructing a congressional investigation and intimidating a witness following a two-week trial that centered on the actions taken by the self-identified "dirty trickster" and GOP agent provocateur during the 2016 election and beyond.
Stone now faces up to 20 years in prison. Judge Amy Berman Jackson, who has presided over the case since January, will had down Stone's sentence in the coming weeks.
The jury found Stone repeatedly misrepresented and concealed his 2016 attempt at collaborating with WikiLeaks and founder Julian Assange to obtain dirt on then-candidate Hillary Clinton and stolen emails when speaking with Trump-Russia investigators from the House Intelligence Committee in a spin-off case from special counsel Robert Mueller’s two-year investigation.
The charges against Stone included one count he “corruptly influenced, obstructed, and impeded†the congressional investigation and another that he attempted to “corruptly persuade†Credico’s congressional testimony. Stone also faced five counts of making “materially false, fictions, and fraudulent statements†to Congress.
Stone, a political confidante of Trump's for more than three decades who by the summer of 2016 was an informal adviser with Trump’s campaign, attempted to reach out to Assange and communicated with the hacker Guccifer 2.0, a fictitious persona created by Russian intelligence, while he made pronouncements about WikiLeaks to Trump campaign associates.
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