(In this January 25 story corrects paragraph four to say number of individuals is 34, not 35)
(In this January 25 story corrects paragraph four to say number of individuals is 34, not 35)
(Reuters) — U. S. President Donald Trump’s long-time ally and campaign adviser Roger Stone was arrested on Friday on seven charges of obstruction, lying and witness tampering as part of the U. S. Special Counsel’s Office Russia investigation.
Stone is one of dozens of people caught up in a long-running investigation of Russian meddling in the 2016 U. S. presidential election and possible collusion between the Kremlin and the Trump campaign, and is the latest Trump associate to be charged.
Trump denies any collusion and has long denounced the investigation led by Special Counsel Robert Mueller as a “witch hunt.” Moscow has denied it interfered in the election.
Here is a list of 34 individuals and three companies who have pleaded guilty, been indicted or otherwise swept up in the inquiry, which has clouded Trump’s presidency and has recently intensified. MICHAEL COHEN
Trump’s former personal lawyer was sentenced in December to three years in prison for crimes including orchestrating hush-money payments to women in violation of campaign laws before the 2016 election. He promised to keep cooperating with the U. S. government against his former boss.
Trump directed the hush payments to the two women shortly before the election and knew that doing so was wrong, Cohen said in a television interview.
Cohen pleaded guilty on Nov. 29 to lying to Congress about a Trump Organization skyscraper project in Moscow.
Cohen once said he would “take a bullet” for Trump, who called him a “rat” in a tweet in December. MICHAEL FLYNN
Flynn pleaded guilty in December 2017 to lying to the FBI about his contacts with Russia during Trump’s presidential transition and agreed to cooperate with Mueller.
He was Trump’s national security adviser for less than a month in early 2017. He resigned after it emerged he had misled Vice President Mike Pence and the FBI about his dealings with the then-Russian ambassador to the United States, Sergey Kislyak.
