Stone claims court-approved search warrants illegally relied on unproven assumptions.
By Spencer S. Hsu Spencer S. Hsu Investigative reporter Email Bio Follow May 10 at 8:54 PM Attorneys for Trump confidant Roger Stone urged a federal judge Friday to toss out all evidence gathered through search warrants in his case, saying court-approved warrants illegally relied on unproven assumptions that Russia was behind the hack of Democratic Party emails during the 2016 campaign or gave them to the anti-secrecy group WikiLeaks.
Stone, 66, has pleaded not guilty, and his latest court filing in Washington sought a hearing to force U.S. authorities to prove in court the role of Russian operatives in hacks on the Democratic National Committee and others, including Hillary Clinton presidential campaign chairman John Podesta.In doing so, Stone’s defense took up a theory backed by some Trump supporters that denies a central finding of special counsel Robert S.
The FBI and U.S. intelligence community have made similar assessments about Russian intelligence agencies’ specific roles.However, Stone’s filing alleged that redacted versions of Mueller’s report and reports by CrowdStrike — the private cybersecurity firm hired by the DNC to investigate the June 2016 attack — that have been turned over to his defense team lack the necessary authentication to be admitted as evidence in a U.S. criminal court.
Stone’s prosecution — transferred from Mueller’s now-concluded probe to the U.S. attorney’s office of the District — declined to comment outside its formal response to the court, due May 31.
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