Posted on 11/27/2018 2:42:29 AM PST by Texas Fossil
(CNN)An associate of Roger Stone said Monday he is refusing to sign a plea deal offered by special counsel Robert Mueller.
Jerome Corsi, whose role in Mueller's investigation into Russian meddling in the 2016 election largely revolves around the possibility that he was an intermediary between Stone and WikiLeaks, said he was offered a deal to plea on one count of perjury.
"They can put me in prison the rest of my life. I am not going to sign a lie," Corsi told CNN in a phone call.
Asked what happens now that he is refusing, Corsi responded: "I don't know."
A spokesman for the special counsel's office had no comment.
Last week, Corsi acknowledged he was in plea negotiations with Mueller's office, and earlier this month, he said he expected to be indicted for "giving false information to the special counsel or to one of the other grand jury."
Corsi said Monday that he believed he would by lying by signing the plea agreement because he says he did not willfully mislead anyone.
Describing his experience with Mueller's team as "like being interrogated as a POW in the Korean War," Corsi said after two months of questioning, prosecutors believed they caught him in various lies and did not appear to believe him when he said he could not recall certain events.
Corsi insisted he had no contact with WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange and that "investigators were so mad because I didn't give them what they wanted."
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And the "Star Chamber" inquiry continues, after 2 years.
shades of Scooter Libby and Gen Flynn - funny how this only happens to Republican appointees. i commend Corsi - where i was fed up before, this action by him gets my “fight” back up.
Dr. Corsi wrote the book ‘Unfit for Command” exposing the lies of John Kerry about his military service and his slanders of his fellow soldiers in Vietnam, which largely led to his defeat by GW Bush. Ratface Mueller is a friend of Kerry. Needs no further explanation; you don’t Ratface and his claque of Hillary supporters going after Podesta, Hillary or anyone they agree with, do you?
Corsi should have known better than to even talk with that corrupt, out of control prosecution team!
I find your comment contentious
No he won’t.
Corsi tells me he’s been offered plea deal on one count of perjury. “They want me to say I willfully lied. I’m not going to agree that I lied. I did not. I will not lie to save my life. I’d rather sit in prison and rot for as long as these thugs want me to.”
— Anna Schecter (@annaschecter) November 26, 2018
Corsi tells me he’s been offered plea deal on one count of perjury. “They want me to say I willfully lied. I’m not going to agree that I lied. I did not. I will not lie to save my life. I’d rather sit in prison and rot for as long as these thugs want me to.”
— Anna Schecter (@annaschecter) November 26, 2018
Yes, he would.
Typical CNN lead sentence.
How about 'Corsi is presumed innocent and continues to assert his innocence?' It's equally true.
Well, it is Still FAKE NEWS. What do you expect?
“Corsi should have known better than to even talk with that corrupt, out of control prosecution team!”
Last night on Ingraham, Sol Weisenberg said Corsi could’ve refused to talk to Mueller. He didn’t understand why he would. Then if Corsi woukld be called in front of a Grand Jury he could have pled the Fifth. No perjury trap.
Mueller's tactic is to threaten his victims into pleading to crimes they didn't commit or pleading guilty to non-crimes. Defending his fake charges in court is the one thing Mueller does not want.
This is Nazi level corruption, and only Trump speaks out. Gutless Republican leaders say nothing.
On the other hand, he is revealing “Truth”....and he’s the only one I’ve seen who has not sold his soul to Mueller.
Indeed it is.
Bump
Not much, to be fair.
But the Orwellian tone of everything they write based on the Mueller farce is amusing.
Corsi has balls
He is old, my age.
At some point, what can they really do to you?
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