Credico ‘prepping’ to be ‘Russiagate’ witness
BY LINCOLN ANDERSON
Randy Credico may or may not be
Roger Stone’s alleged “backchannel” to
Julian Assange and WikiLeaks. Stone
says he was, but Credico denies it.
In addition, Credico may or may not
have recently gone down to Washington,
D.C., to talk to federal prosecutors
as they close in on a possible indictment
of Stone in the wide-ranging probe into
so-called “Russiagate.”
On Thanksgiving, The Villager texted
Stone, asking him what was new in
the now-year-and-a-half-old investigation.
He texted back, in part, regarding
Credico, “I understand he has been
called back before the grand jury.”
Credico is a Manhattan-based standup
comic-turned-radio journalist who
had Assange on his WBAI radio show
prior to the 2016 presidential election.
He also visited Assange in the Ecuadorian
Embassy in London several times,
the fi rst visit a year after the election.
Credico already testifi ed before a
federal grand jury once, on Aug. 31, as
part of Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s
investigation into alleged Russian
infl uence in the election. Credico has
said, when questioned before the grand
jury, he mainly spoke about Stone.
For his part, Stone was previously
questioned by the House Special Committee
on Intelligence, which conducted
its own Russiagate probe.
Asked if he was, as Stone claimed,
going down to D.C. to be grilled in
front of the grand jury again, Credico
wrote back, in part, on Nov. 28, via Facebook
message, “I’m fi nished with the
grand jury… and the FEDS… .”
Yet, it seems possible Credico might,
in fact, have made another trip down to
Washington —and that, at the least, he
defi nitely was considering it. On Dec.
2, in a phone call with The Villager,
Credico said he didn’t know whether
he would be going to Washington that
Wednesday, Dec. 5, or not, and to call
him “after Wednesday” and check up
on what transpired.
He added he was being circumspect
about his planned whereabouts because
he feared for his safety, worrying that
the “alt-right” was out to get to him.
“Nothing happened this week,”
Credico subsequently reported in a Facebook
message on Sat., Dec. 8.
However, speaking to The Villager
the following week, Credico confi rmed
that he and his attorney, Martin Stolar,
actually had been mulling another
meeting between Credico and Mueller’s
prosecutors.
“It was a standby situation,” Credico
explained. “Marty said, ‘We’re going
down.’ But we didn’t need to go down
— they got Cohen and Manafort,” he
said, indicating that the feds didn’t feel
they “needed” Credico, as a result.
Michael Cohen, Donald Trump’s
former fi xer, was sentenced Dec. 12 to
Roger Stone, left, and Randy Credico in 2017 when Credico was acting
as a talent coordinator for a documentary on Stone by David Lugo. According
to Credico, he and Stone had had a falling out and didn’t speak
to each other from 2010 to 2016. As for the Richard Nixon posters,
Stone started his career back with “Tricky Dick” and sports a muchpublicized
tattoo of him on his back.
three years for lying to Congress and
campaign-fi nance violations by paying
off two women who had fl ings with
Trump before he was president.
Paul Manafort, Trump’s former campaign
chairperson, has been convicted
of tax fraud, among other charges, and
has also entered a guilty plea on charges
of conspiracy to defraud the U.S.
and witness tampering. In addition, he
was recently accused of violating his
plea agreement.
‘I’m not confi rming
if it happened.’
Martin Stolar
“I’m going to stay out of the news
right now,” Credico said. “I’m not going
to get in any more pissing matches
with Roger Stone. I need a break.”
He recommended speaking to his
attorney Stolar for more details about
what may or may not have recently happened
in D.C.
New York magazine is set to publish
a big profi le on him, he added.
Stolar said what Credico potentially
is doing — although he stressed he has
not necessarily done it yet — is to meet
with prosecutors for “witness preparation”
for a possible trial.
“Randy is a potential witness at the
trial,” Stolar explained. “If there’s a
trial: They haven’t decided to indict the
PHOTO COURTESY RANDY CREDICO
guy yet.”
Asked who “the guy” is, Stolar blurted
out, “Stone!”
No one has informed the attorney
that Stone is the so-called “target” yet,
but that’s the obvious assumption.
“It’s not a big deal,” Stolar said of
witness preparation. “I do it all the
f—in’ time. I mean, if I put a witness
on the witness stand, I need to know
what the witness is going to say. It’s
standard stuff. It’s your witness — you
control what questions you’re going to
ask your witness.”
Asked whether Credico did, in fact,
meet with federal prosecutors on Dec.,
5, Stolar responded, “I’m not confi rming
when and where this happened —
or if it happened.
“I’m not saying it happened, either —
but it’s something that’s going to happen,”
he assured. “It happened — or it’s
going to happen. It’s a real thing, and
it’s standard stuff.”
As for Stone, Stolar said he could
take a plea or the case could be dismissed
or possibly go to trial.
As for Stone claiming Credico was
slated to go before the grand jury again,
Stolar said the infamous Republican
“dirty trickster” and former Trump
campaign adviser is way off base.
“Stone doesn’t know s—,” he said.
“He doesn’t know what we’re doing.”
The attorney blasted Stone’s accusation
that it was Credico who fed Stone
advance information about WikiLeaks’
damaging “dumps.”
In August 2016, Stone hinted that
WikiLeaks would be publishing incendiary
e-mails from John Podesta — Hillary
Clinton’s campaign manager —
gloatingly tweeting, “It will soon be
Podesta’s turn in the barrel.” Similarly,
in October 2016, Stone showed possible
foreknowledge of another e-mail
“dump” that would harm the candidate,
when he tweeted, “Wednesday Hillary
Clinton is done #WikiLeaks.”
“The bottom line is: Was Randy
Credico the back channel to all these
WikiLeaks dumps?” Stolar asked.
“You think Randy is that sick that he
would hurt Hillary to help Trump?” he
said, answering his own question.
Credico has said he supported Green
Party candidate Jill Stein for president.
“Can you conceive of Randy Credico
being a Trump supporter?” Stolar
asked, incredulously. “He’s a civilrights
activist and a reformer. Was he
the backchannel? No. … Stone can say
whatever he wants.”
When Stone texted The Villager
on Thanksgiving, he included about
two-dozen texts that Credico allegedly
sent him right before the October ’16
WikiLeaks dump.
Among these were: “big news
Wednesday,” “now pretend u don’t
know me,” “Hillary’s campaign will
die this week,” “i think its on for tomorrow,”
“Why can’t you get Trump to
come out and say that he would give Julian
Assange Asylum,” “Off the Record
Hillary and her people are doing a fullcourt
press to try to keep Assange
from making the next dump,” “That’s
all I can tell you on this line,” “Please
leave my name out of it,” “There will be
an announcement but not on the embassy
balcony.”
In addition, in the text exchanges
provided by Stone, Credico tells him
that a friend of Stone’s did not have a
meeting with Assange, and also that
Assange had scheduled a press conference
for 3 a.m. U.S. Eastern Time.
“How would you know, rummy?”
Stone texts back, taking a dig at Credico’s
history of substance abuse.
Credico allegedly responds, “Because
I’m friends with his lawyer and leave it
at that! and leave it alone.”
Credico is friends with Margaret
Ratner, widow of civil-rights attorney
William Kunstler. Credico lived in Kunstler’s
Gay St. home over the years and
also headed the William Moses Kunstler
Fund for Racial Justice. Ratner is
reportedly an attorney for WikiLeaks.
Stone added that he has released 80
pages of text messages that confi rm
Credico was “the source” of his information
on the WikiLeaks dumps.
Similarly, Credico has given all of his
texts and e-mails to Mueller and also,
apparently, to the writer of the New
York magazine article. This past June,
Credico shared some e-mails with The
Villager that he said were examples of
Stone trying to intimidate him. Stone
countered they were doctored by Credico
and also taken out of context.
“I stand by everything I’ve said publicly
and behind closed doors,” Credico said.
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