Randy Credico, a radio host, is expected to shed light on Stone’s efforts to connect with WikiLeaks during the 2016 election.
Prosecutors are already subpoenaing witnesses to testify against Roger Stone, the Trump associate whose trial for allegedly lying to Congress and obstructing lawmakers’ Russia probes won’t begin for another six-and-a-half months.
Randy Credico, a colorful New York radio host and Stone acquaintance, was recently subpoenaed by the Washington, D.C., U.S. Attorney’s office on April 18 to testify in Stone’s case. The subpoena, obtained by POLITICO, orders Credico to appear in court on Nov. 5, the day the trial opens.
Credico’s lawyer Martin Stolar told POLITICO that “there is no reason to expect that we will not comply” with the subpoena, which is signed by the lead prosecutor on the Stone case, Michael Marando.
The subpoena is the first sign that the government considers Credico, who Mueller’s team interviewed several times in 2018 and who testified before the grand jury, to be a credible and potentially damaging witness against Stone. It also offers a glimpse into the prosecution’s strategy — Credico is expected to shed light not only on Stone’s efforts to connect with WikiLeaks during the 2016 election as he sought Hillary Clinton’s emails, but also on Stone’s alleged attempts to intimidate Credico into parroting his version of events.
Eager for any and all information that could affect the witnesses’ credibility, Stone’s lawyers have asked U.S. District Court Judge Amy Berman Jackson, who is overseeing Stone’s case, to order the government to hand over an unredacted version of special counsel Robert Mueller’s full report on his nearly two-year-long investigation of Russian election interference. Sections of the report dealing with ongoing investigations, including Stone’s, are blacked out of the 448-page document.
Jackson didn’t make a decision on Stone’s request, but told his lawyers that their arguments really “need to home in” on why the defense needs information it has presumably already obtained via the discovery process — including FBI 302s, or interview summaries, and grand jury material. Stone’s lawyers have also been given roughly nine terabytes of data that the government obtained and gave the defense during discovery. The government has until Friday to respond to Stone’s request for the unredacted report.
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