Senate Investigators Want Stone Documents

News  |  Jun 23, 2018

According to ABC News, Senate investigators have asked Roger Stone to turn over all materials related to his 2016 meeting with a Russian national asking for $2 million in exchange for dirt on Hillary Clinton. (Ed. Note: The article does not specify which Senate committee is asking, but presumably it would be the Intelligence Committee.)

The committee’s request comes days after it was revealed that in May 2016 Stone was approached through intermediaries by Henry Greenberg, reportedly a Russian citizen who claimed to have damaging material on Hillary Clinton ... 

Over lunch in Sunny Isles, Florida, a community north of Miami that is popular with Russian transplants and tourists, Greenberg reportedly offered to sell Stone damaging material on Clinton for $2 million – a deal Stone said he declined.

Stone served as an early adviser to Trump’s presidential campaign but left amid controversy in 2015. He told ABC News he “never discussed the matter with Donald Trump or anyone in his campaign” and he “flatly rejected this proposal as ludicrous and frankly forgot about it.”

Stone now alleges he was set up by the FBI because he believes Greenberg worked as an FBI informant.

There is no outside evidence to support the claim ...

... Stone had never mentioned the contact when he testified before the House Intelligence Committee last year.

“In multiple respects now, the testimony of Roger Stone appears inaccurate or deliberately misleading,” Rep. Adam Schiff, D-Calif., the ranking Democrat on the House Intelligence Committee, said Sunday ...

Stone was asked about foreign contacts during his interview in September 2017.

"I just didn't remember,” he told ABC News on Wednesday, noting that 2016 “was a pretty busy year. I don't think a failure of memory constitutes a perjury."

Full story: Senate seeks detail about Roger Stone’s 2016 Russia contact (ABC News)