A federal judge in Washington on Thursday ordered the Justice Department to turn over any unredacted sections of Special Counsel Robert Mueller's report on Russian activities during the 2016 presidential campaign that relate to longtime Republican political operative Roger Stone. U.S. District Judge Amy Berman Jackson gave federal prosecutors until Monday to "submit unredacted versions of those portions of the report that relate to defendant Stone and/or 'the dissemination of hacked materials.'" Stone asked Jackson last month to order Justice to turn over a full copy of the Mueller report to his defense as part of discovery. The charges stem from conversations stone had during the campaign about WikiLeaks, which published emails stolen from Hillary Clinton's presidential campaign and the Democratic National Committee in the summer of 2016. They allege that Congress did not formally make a referral to the Justice Department about Stone's testimony, and that Mueller's investigation was "a violation of the separation of powers."

Source: Fox News May 09, 2019 22:07 UTC