Revelation comes in filing in court case of Trump confidante Roger Stone.
The Justice Department plans to provide key members of Congress with a more complete version of special counsel Robert S. Mueller III’s report than what will be made public on Thursday, prosecutors told a federal judge on Wednesday.
Federal prosecutors described the plan to provide nonpublic material to Congress — where Democratic lawmakers have been pushing to receive an unredacted version of the report — in a court filing made Wednesday in the case against Trump confidante Roger Stone.
Stone has been charged with lying to Congress about his efforts to contact WikiLeaks during the 2016 presidential campaign. The case was brought by Mueller’s team in January but has been transferred to the D. C. U. S. attorney’s office with the formal closure of Mueller’s investigation last month.
Stone, who has pleaded not guilty, is scheduled to go to trial in November.
Last week, his attorneys filed a motion to dismiss the case. Separately, they asked the judge to release to them a full copy of Mueller’s report, arguing that it could contain exculpatory material showing Mueller had unfairly targeted Stone and chose not to charge others who also appeared to have lied to Congress.
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