The intermediary between longtime Trump confidant Roger Stone and WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange has been subpoenaed by special counsel Robert Mueller to appear before a grand jury in September, a new report says.
The lawyer for the intermediary, Randy Credico, confirmed to CNN that Credico had gotten a subpoena this week. He plans to submit to the subpoena and will testify on Sept. 7.
“My speculation is that they probably want to talk to him about Roger Stone and Julian Assange,” Martin Stolar, Credico’s attorney, told CNN.
Stone has attracted scrutiny from investigators after he seemed to predict the publication of stolen documents on the WikiLeaks website. In 2016, he tweeted that Hillary Clinton campaign chairman John Podesta’s “time in the barrel” would soon occur.
But Stone has denied every having any prior knowledge from WikiLeaks about the release of Podesta’s emails and has said the statement was based off of his own investigations of Podesta and his brother Tony.
Stone’s associates and finances are currently being examined by Mueller, who is spearheading the federal investigation into Russian interference in 2016 and possible collusion between the Trump campaign and Russia.
WikiLeaks is notorious for its document dumps containing secret information. For example, the website publicly published stolen emails from Democratic officials during the 2016 campaign and documents related to CIA hacking tools.
The U.S. intelligence community released an assessment last year that determined with “high confidence” that WikILeaks was used by Russian intelligence to publish information to assist electing Trump. WikiLeaks has rejected this assertion.
