Roger Stone invokes Fifth Amendment, declines cooperation with Senate Judiciary Committee
by Kelly Cohen
| December 04, 2018 05:38 PM
Roger Stone, an ally and occasional adviser to President Trump, is refusing to cooperate with the Senate Judiciary Committee.
In a letter sent to Ranking Member Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif., attorney Grant J. Smith said his client will be invoking his Fifth Amendment right and neither testifying to the committee nor sharing requested documents.
“The requests, as previously stated to staff, are far too overbroad, far too overreaching, far too wide ranging both in their all-embracing list of persons to whom the request could relate with whom Mr. Stone has communicated over the past three years, and the ‘documents concerning’ imprecision of the requests,†wrote Stone’s attorney in the letter dated Monday and made public Tuesday.
Smith also noted that Stone previously testified to the House Intelligence Committee and that transcripts from that testimony will be made public in the coming weeks.
Despite a request by Stone that the transcripts be made public, they were not — and because of that, there were “a number of inaccurate leaks and speculation which disserved both my client and the public interest,†wrote Smith.
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