Jerome Corsi Says He Turned Down Mueller Plea Deal
Reports over the weekend stated that Jerome Corsi, a longtime right-wing conspiracy theorist and associate of Roger Stone, was in plea negotiations with the office of special counsel Robert Mueller. Corsi, the New York Times said, had been presented with “evidence that he had not been truthful when investigators asked him whether he knew beforehand that WikiLeaks was going to publish emails stolen from Democratic computers during the campaign.”
But now, another report says Corsi has refused Mueller’s offer of a plea. According to a tweet by reporter Natasha Bertrand of the Atlantic, Mueller’s team offered Corsi a plea deal on a single count of perjury, but “he’s not going to take it because it would require him to sign a statement saying he knowingly and willfully lied, which he still denies.”
