Robert Mueller hits the Roger Stone mother lode
Roger Stone and his apologists are awfully upset that Special Counsel Robert Mueller sent a large team of armed FBI agents to arrest him at his Florida home, instead of simply calling him up and telling him to turn himself in. But to anyone who understands how these things work, the raid was all about making sure he couldn’t hide or destroy the evidence in his home. Sure enough, Mueller has hit the mother lode.
Robert Mueller’s new court filing reveals that “voluminous and complex” evidence was seized from Roger Stone’s home. Mueller now has his hands on several terabytes of Stone’s electronic data, including phones, banking records, and more, according to NBC News. In fact there’s so much evidence, Mueller and Stone’s lawyers are both asking the judge for additional time to get it all sorted out.
When the Roger Stone indictment first surfaced and it only included seven felony charges, Palmer Report pointed out that it wasn’t anywhere near complete. Robert Mueller has spent the better part of a year hauling numerous people in Stone’s professional and personal life before the grand jury, making clear that he’s building a criminal case that focuses on several different kinds of alleged criminal schemes, many of which go far beyond Stone’s longtime involvement with Donald Trump. Now Mueller has the evidence he needs to finish building a broad and airtight case against Stone that’ll send him to prison for the rest of his life, just as Mueller did with Paul Manafort.
But none of this should impact Robert Mueller’s timeframe for making his upcoming big moves against Donald Trump Jr, Jared Kushner, or whoever is next. In fact Mueller made a point of indicting Roger Stone now for his involvement with WikiLeaks, in order to legally establish it as a criminal conspiracy, thus making it easier to charge the other Trump people who were also involved with WikiLeaks and its stolen data. Mueller can move on them whenever he decides to.
