Roger Stone leaving court after Jan. 29 arraignment. Photo: Diego M. RadzinschiTech Trove: Roger Stone Discovery Is 'Voluminous and Complex'
Prosecutors say the FBI seized "multiple hard drives containing several terabytes of information" in raids at his home, apartment and office.
January 31, 2019 at 01:45 PM
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The original version of this story was published on National Law Journal
The universe of potential evidence against President Donald Trump confidante Roger Stone, accused of obstruction of justice and other crimes in a special counsel's case, includes “terabytes of electronic records and data,” federal prosecutors told a judge Thursday.
Stone's defense attorneys and prosecutors, including lawyers working for Special Counsel Robert Mueller III, agreed to designate the case as “complex.” The move eliminates any demand from Stone that he be brought to trial quickly.
The government's lawyers said they will soon begin to provide Stone's defense team with “voluminous and complex” records as part of the discovery process. Stone, arrested last week in a predawn FBI raid at his Fort Lauderdale home, is charged with lying to Congress and attempting to obstruct its investigation of Russia's interference in the 2016 presidential election. Stone has pleaded not guilty.
The seized evidence includes “Apple iCloud accounts and email accounts, bank and financial records, and the contents of numerous physical devices (e.g., cellular phones, computers, and hard drives),” prosecutors said in their court filing. “The communications contained in the iCloud accounts, email accounts, and physical devices span several years.”
FBI agents are still reviewing the electronic devices at Stone's home, apartment and office, and that review includes an assessment of whether any messages or other communications will be off limits to prosecutors based on attorney-client privilege.
Stone's defense team includes L. Peter Farkas of Washington's Halloran Farkas + Kittila, Bruce Rogow of Fort Lauderdale, Grant Smith of Fort Lauderdale's StrategySmith and Robert Buschel of Buschel & Gibbons in Fort Lauderdale.
The prosecution team includes Assistant U.S. Attorneys Jonathan Kravis and Michael Marando, and Jeannie Rhee and Aaron Zelinsky from Special Counsel Robert Mueller III's office.
Marando and Kravis have prosecuted public-corruption charges in Washington. Kravis is a former clerk to U.S. Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer and Judge Merrick Garland on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit. Kravis served as an associate White House counsel from 2009 to 2010.
Stone, a self-proclaimed “pundit and legendary American Republican political consultant,” is due back in court Friday before U.S. District Judge Amy Berman Jackson in Washington.
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