A third ex-aide to Trump adviser Roger Stone has been subpoenaed as part of special counsel Robert Mueller’s Russia investigation, according to a report Thursday.
Andrew Miller, who worked for Stone during the 2016 campaign, is being compelled to appear before a grand jury investigating Russian interference with the election, the New York Times reports.
Miller’s lawyer, Paul Kamenar, told the Times he is planning to file a motion arguing that Mueller’s appointment “was unconstitutional,” thereby hoping to drop the subpoena.
“The founders feared exactly what we see in Mueller: a runaway federal official. We hope to see Mueller’s operation disbanded, once and for all,” Peter Flaherty, the chairman of the National Legal and Policy Center, which is paying for Kamenar’s services, told the Times.
Paul Manafort, Trump’s former campaign chairman, also tried this approach this week and failed, the Times said.
Ex-Stone aides John Kakanis and John Sullivan have already been dealt subpoenas.
Stone himself has not been indicted, but acknowledged to The Hill it’s a “possibility.”
Mueller has been circling Stone regarding a meeting that allegedly transpired during the campaign with a Russian national offering damaging information on the Clinton campaign for $2 million. Stone and Trump campaign aide Michael Caputo claim to have been targeted in a setup by U.S. law enforcement during the 2016 campaign to pin then-candidate Donald Trump.
Stone has repeatedly said, however, that the president has nothing to worry about because “I am his most loyal supporter,” as he told the Washington Examiner in April.
