Jerome Corsi, a far-right writer linked to President Trump and Roger Stone, is in talks with special counsel Robert Mueller over a possible plea deal, according to a report.
The negotiations regarding a guilty plea in exchange for leniency, however, could still unravel, the Washington Post reported Friday, as Mueller’s office continues to investigate whether there were any connections between WikiLeaks and Trump associates ahead of the 2016 presidential election.
Discussion of a plea deal follows Corsi saying on his radio show this month that he suspected Mueller would indict him for lying to prosecutors or the grand jury as part of the ongoing federal Russia probe. He also said he feared spending the rest of his life in prison.
Corsi, the former Washington bureau chief of Infowars who had direct access to Trump during the 2016 campaign, has spoken to investigators for about 40 hours and appeared before the grand jury twice since being subpoenaed in August.
Mueller’s team has reportedly been looking into whether Corsi had a source who tipped him off that WikiLeaks had emails stolen from Hillary Clinton’s then-campaign chairman John Podesta before their staggered release to the public from October 2016. The 50,000 messages, from Podesta’s personal Gmail address, were allegedly first obtained by a group connected to Russian intelligence.
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Mueller investigation target Jerome Corsi in talks for a plea deal https://t.co/iZ1ODuczxL
— Washington Examiner (@dcexaminer) November 23, 2018
Stone associate Jerome Corsi is in plea negotiations with special counsel, according to a person with knowledge of the talks https://t.co/boB1ISHVBC
— The Washington Post (@washingtonpost) November 23, 2018
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