Conservative author and associate of Roger Stone, Jerome Corsi, said in a YouTube streaming show Monday that he expected to be indicted by the special counsel for lying to him “or to one of the other grand jury.”
“And now I fully anticipate that the next few days, I will be indicted by Mueller for some form or other of giving false information to the special counsel or to one of the other grand jury or however they want to do the indictment. But I’m going to be criminally charged,” he said.
Corsi told his listeners that in the past two months since he received a subpoena by Robert Mueller’s office, he has turned over two computers, emails and other communications to the special counsel and sat for six interviews totaling more than 40 hours.
During the presidential race of 2016, Corsi provided research to Stone, who has been the subject of Mueller’s scrutiny for his possible ties to WikiLeaks as part of the special counsel’s investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 campaign, The Washington Post informs.
Corsi added that his cooperation with investigators has “exploded” and that now he expects to be indicted. He could face charges ranging from perjury to making false claims to obstruction of justice. The potential charges are related to false statements he made about his relationship with WikiLeaks and Stone.
However, Corsi also expressed his belief that the reason why he was being persecuted was because of his open opposition to the investigation and his defense of President Donald Trump.
“The Department of Justice is run by criminals. I think my crime really was that I supported Donald Trump. Now I guess I’ll go to prison for the rest of my life, because I dared to oppose the ‘deep state’,” he said on his web-program.
Corsi is one of Stone’s associates interviewed by Mueller’s investigators looking into whether anyone in Trump’s inner circle coordinated with WikiLeaks in its release of Democratic emails allegedly hacked by Russian operatives. Before and during the 2016 campaign, Stone made public comments indicating he had inside information about material held by WikiLeaks and its founder Julian Assange.
Since then, he has insisted the comments were exaggerated and came from tips from associates.
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