The long-awaited, redacted version of Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s report released Thursday refers to several Florida links to Russia’s attempt to interfere with the U.S. presidential election.
New information is sparse in relevant sections of the report, which blacks out some material — including details about some of the people and events related to Florida.
“As you will see, most of the redactions were compelled by the need to prevent harm to ongoing matters and to comply with court orders prohibiting the public disclosure of information bearing upon ongoing investigations and criminal cases, such as the IRA case and the Roger Stone case,” Attorney General William Barr said at a Washington, D.C., briefing.
The IRA refers to the Internet Research Agency in St. Petersburg, Russia.
Roger Stone
Roger Stone, the Fort Lauderdale resident who is a longtime informal adviser to President Donald Trump, was indicted in January on seven counts of obstruction, false statements and witness tampering.
At the center of the charges against Stone are his conversations involving WikiLeaks, which released internal Democratic Party emails that were hacked by Russian operatives during the 2016 campaign. According to prosecutors, Stone lied to the House Intelligence Committee about those communications and tried to persuade another person to provide false testimony.