Trump associate Roger Stone charged with lying to Congress in Russia probe

The seven-count indictment against the self-proclaimed ‘dirty trickster’ is the first criminal case in months from special counsel Robert Mueller.

Roger Stone, a confidant of Donald Trump, has been arrested in special counsel Robert Mueller’s Russia investigation and charged with lying to Congress and obstructing the probe.

The seven-count indictment against Stone, a self-proclaimed “dirty trickster”, is the first criminal case in months from special counsel Robert Mueller and provides the most detail to date about how Trump associates were aware in summer 2016 that emails had been stolen from the Hillary Clinton campaign and wanted them released.