ROGER STONE'S AND JEROME CORSI'S TIME IN THE BARRELL
The New Yorker
February 18 & 25, 2019 Issue
By Jeffrey Toobin
Roger Stone's house in Ft. Lauderdale is situated between a quiet street and one of the city's canals, which are the only feature Ft. Lauderdale shares with it's Italian sister city, Venice.
In a small room on the first floor, Stone keeps mementos of a career as a political consultant and provocateur which is now in it's fifth decade.
There are bumper stickers from Richard Nixon's campaigns for president and photographs of Stone with candidates for whom he's worked.
There's one of Arlen Specter, the late senator from Pennsylvania, and several of Stone with Donald Trump, whose political aspirations Stone has championed since the nineteen-eighties.
When I visited him, on a quiet afternoon in early January, the room also featured a reminder of the crisis that was enveloping him -- and his characteristic response to it.
In a pair of cardboard boxes, there were dozens of polished rocks, which Stone was autographing and selling: "Roger stones," to benefit his legal-defense fund.
As subsequent developments have demonstrated, he is going to need to sell a lot of them.
Shortly before dawn on the morning of January 25th, FBI agents pounded on the door of Stone's house and arrested him, following an indictment by Robert Mueller, the special counsel.
The FBI also searched Stone's house, his office, and the apartment in Harlem that he used to share with Kristin Davis, the former madam and onetime New York gubernatorial candidate.
According to Matthew Whitaker, the acting Attorney General, Mueller's investigation of Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election is "close to being completed," but Mueller has not yet said whether or not he believes that anyone on the Trump campaign colluded with Russian interests in order to defeat Hillary Clinton.
Nor has he said whether he believes that the President obstructed justice by firing James Comey, the former FBI director.
Nevertheless, Mueller's legal filings, which include indictments and sentencing memorandums, have created an almost novelistic narrative, featuring rich portraits of the political and personal motivations of a large cast of characters.
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https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2019/02/18/roger-stones-and-jerome-corsis-time-in-the-barrel
BREAKING:
"Judge imposes full gag order on Roger Stone"
https://kdvr.com/2019/02/21/judge-imposes-gag-order-on-trump-confidant-roger-stone-after-instagram-post/
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