Longtime Trump adviser Roger Stone has been under scrutiny for months by the special counsel for predictions he made in 2016 that WikiLeaks planned to release material damaging to Hillary Clinton. But he said he is confident that the transcript of his testimony will not provide the special counsel with grounds to charge him. Mueller’s request of the official copy signals the special counsel could now be pursuing an indictment, several legal experts said. In July, the special counsel charged a group of Russian intelligence officers with hacking the emails and providing them to WikiLeaks. But last month, Cohen pleaded guilty to such a charge as part of the special counsel probe.

Source: Washington Post December 19, 2018 22:48 UTC