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Roger Stone, a sometime adviser and confidant of President Donald Trump, launched a blunderbuss attack on his indictment by Special Counsel Robert Mueller, filing a flurry of papers claiming he was singled out for prosecution and demanding that his lawyers be allowed to see the special counsel’s final report.
A longtime Republican political operative and dirty trickster, Stone was indicted in late January on charges he lied to Congress about communications with WikiLeaks,
obstructed lawmakers’ investigation and tampered with witnesses.
He has pleaded not guilty.
His indictment was the last obtained by Mueller before he wrapped up his investigation into Russian interference with the 2016 US presidential election and possible collusion by the Trump campaign.
In a suite of six sometimes overlapping filings, Stone’s lawyers asked US District Judge Amy Berman Jackson in Washington to throw out the case against him, arguing that Mueller’s investigation was improperly funded, that the special counsel himself was improperly appointed and that the lawmakers to whom Stone allegedly lied never asked Mueller to investigate that
possibility.