Erik Prince, the founder of private security company Blackwater, said in an interview published Tuesday that he cooperated with special counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation into possible ties between Russia and the Trump campaign.
“I have spoken voluntarily to Congress and I also cooperated with the special counsel,” Prince told the Daily Beast when asked if he had heard from anyone on Mueller’s team. “I have plenty of opinions about the various investigations but there’s no question some people are taking it seriously and I think it’s best to keep my opinion on that to myself for now.”
Prince claimed that media reports of him were more incorrect than correct.
“All I can say is, there’s been a lot of media reporting about me over the years and most of it is wrong,” Prince said. “They get it wrong way more than they ever get it right.”
In March, the Mueller investigation uncovered evidence that a January 2017 meeting he had in Seychelles with a Russian investor close to Russian President Vladimir Putin was planned, even though Prince, a informal Trump transition team adviser, said the meeting was a coincidence.
