Right-wing author and conspiracy theorist Jerome Corsi said Monday his stepson is being called to testify before a grand jury as part of special counsel Robert Mueller’s federal Russia investigation.
Corsi’s stepson Andrew Stettner received a subpoena as Mueller’s team investigates Corsi’s communications with former Trump confidant Roger Stone, particularly as they pertain to WikiLeaks and whether they had prior knowledge it was going to dump information during the 2016 campaign that would hurt Hillary Clinton’s chances of becoming president. According to draft court documents released by Corsi last year, Mueller’s office alleges the ex-Washington bureau chief of InfoWars wiped potentially incriminating details from his computer between Jan. 13, 2017, and March 1, 2017, including emails exchanged with Stone before Oct. 11, 2016.
Corsi told Fox Business Network Monday that Mueller was examining Stettner because he had given his stepson a desktop Apple computer to use for the family’s property management and cleaning business. Stettner had informed Corsi via text message that he had “scrubbed” the machine prior to repurposing it.
“I think they think that Andrew was conspiring with me as my aide, as my computer expert, to destroy evidence,” Corsi said. “They’re determined to find any crime they can find and make up a crime. They’re investigating every aspect of our lives, intruding our families.”
Corsi told the cable news network that he had saved what was on the computer on an external hard drive, but that Mueller has not asked him for it.
Corsi’s comments come after he told the same channel last month Mueller was watching his family, filing a lawsuit earlier in December that accused the special counsel of “illegal and unconstitutional surveillance” of his phone and electronic records, as well as leaking grand jury updates.
Corsi has testified before the Russia grand jury twice since last August when he himself was subpoenaed by Mueller. Corsi has said he suspected WikiLeaks had emails damaging to Clinton based on publicly available information, rather than through a back channel with the organization. Corsi in November rejected a deal offered by Mueller in which he would have agreed to plead guilty to one count of lying to federal investigators. He insists he has never intentionally misled prosecutors.
