Jerome Corsi, the right wing conspiracy theorist and Roger Stone associate facing possible indictment in the special counsel's Russia investigation filed a lawsuit Sunday accusing Robert Mueller of blackmailing him to get him to lie about President Trump.
The suit, which seeks $350 million in actual and punitive damages in U.S. District Court in Washington, was filed six days after Corsi entered a formal complaint with the Justice Department alleging prosecutorial misconduct by Mueller.
Corsi, 72, the former Washington bureau chief of the conspiracy website InfoWars, accuses Mueller's office of having illegally leaked secret information from the grand jury investigating Russian election interference.
The suit also accuses the special counsel's office of having threatened him with prison unless he agreed to testify falsely that he served as a liaison between WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange and the Republican political strategist Roger Stone, who was an adviser to Trump's presidential campaign.
Mueller has obtained emails between Corsi and Stone wherein they discuss WikiLeaks and Assange.
Corsi's suit does not stop at Mueller.
And it accuses the FBI, the CIA and the National Security Agency — all of whom are named as co-respondents — of having placed Corsi under illegal surveillance "at the direction of Mueller and his partisan Democrat, leftist, and ethically and legally conflicted prosecutorial staff."
The goal, the suit alleges, was to bring about a "'legal coup d'etat,' negating the will of the American voters who elected Donald J. Trump on November 6, 2016."
Roger Stone associate Jerome Corsi sues Mueller, Justice, CIA, FBI, NSA for $350 million (NBC News)