Robert Mueller certainly is interested in Roger Stone, an American author living in Britain confirmed after being questioned by federal agents who are investigating possible meddling by Russia during the 2016 campaign.
Theodore Roosevelt "Ted" Malloch, a 65-year-old American academic living in London, was detained at Boston's Logan Airport and was questioned by Mueller's team about his ties to both Stone and Wikileaks' founder Julián Assange, ABC News reported.
Malloch's link to the investigation apparently is through his newly released book, "The Plot to Destroy Trump: How the Deep State Fabricated the Russian Dossier to Subvert the President," which according to its promotion "exposes the deep state conspiracy to discredit and even depose the legitimately elected President Donald J. Trump with the fabricated Russian dossier."
The London-based author told ABC News that he had only met Stone, a Trump confidante, a handful of times and had previously asked Stone to re-purpose text from a speech for the forward to his book.
Malloch seemed taken aback by the interest shown in relationships with Assange, who remains sequestered in the Ecuadorian embassy in London where he has been given diplomatic asylum after thousands of confidential defense and diplomatic documents were published in 2010.
Malloch said investigators wanted to know about any visits to the Ecuadorian embassy in London. The author denied knowing Assange at all.
Stone meanwhile has said although it had been implied that he had used Malloch as an intermediary between himself and Assange, that wasn’t true.
"I know and like Professor Malloch," Stone told ABC News. "I met him during the 2016 campaign and think we were together on perhaps three occasions. . . . There has been some inference in the media that Ted was somehow a go-between between me, Wikileaks and Julian Assange. This is false."
Malloch didn’t discuss details about his detainment in Boston, but ABC News cited an unnamed source who has met with the special counsel's team and who said there was interest in Stone's efforts to get Malloch an audience with then-candidate Trump during the 2016 campaign.
Malloch claimed to be a volunteer adviser to the Trump campaign, but ABC News said many of Trump’s closest aides denied any knowledge of Malloch.
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