Special counsel Robert Mueller is investigating whether longtime Trump associate Roger Stone tried to intimidate a witness in the Russia probe, according to a report Wednesday.
Stone has identified New York radio personality Randy Credico as his backchannel to WikiLeaks. But Credico denies he was Stone’s connection.
Two people with links to the men have testified to a grand jury or have been questioned by Mueller’s team about a blog post that was critical of Credico and messages sent from Stone to Credico, the Wall Street Journal reports.
Filmmaker David Lugo, who knows both men, said he has testified about a blog post Stone helped him craft that was critical of Credico. Businessman Bill Samuels said he was questioned about Credico’s reaction to messages sent by Stone that were allegedly threatening.
In the messages, Stone threatened to “sue the fuck“ out of Credico, labeled him “a loser a liar and a rat” and told him to “prepare to die cock sucker.”
Samuels said Credico, who testified to Mueller’s grand jury in September, almost had a nervous breakdown due to Stone’s actions toward him.
Stone, who has not been publicly charged with a crime in the Russia investigation, categorically denied that he ever sought to intimidate Credico in an email to the Washington Examiner.
“Text messages between us prove beyond dispute that he was my source regarding the significance of the Wikileaks disclosures revealed by Julian Assange on CNN in June of 2016 and that he perjured himself before the Grand Jury on this point,” Stone said. “I certainly admit I was and am angry at Credico — not over his unwillingness to lie but over his refusal to tell the truth.”
WikiLeaks published emails stolen from Hillary Clinton’s campaign chairman John Podesta and other Democratic officials during the 2016 campaign. An indictment from special counsel Robert Mueller alleged that Russia stole thousands of emails and passed them along to WikiLeaks, which released them in the weeks leading up to Election Day.
