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TODAYS TOP HEADLINES The Times, Gainesville, Georgia | gainesvilletimes.com Saturday, November 24, 2018 3A Associate of Roger Stone in plea talks with Mueller team ALABAMA Suspect in mall shooting killed, 2 others wounded Police responded to fight that allegedly sparked incident BY CHAD DAY Associated Press JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. — A conservative writer and associate of Trump confidant Roger Stone said Friday that he is in plea talks with special counsel Robert Mueller’s team. Jerome Corsi told The Associated Press he has been negotiating a potential plea but declined to comment fur ther. He said on a YouTube show earlier this month that he expected to be charged with lying to fed eral investigators, though he said at the time that he was innocent of wrongdoing. Mueller’s team ques tioned Corsi as part of an investigation into Stone’s connections with WikiLeaks. American intelligence agencies have assessed that Russia was the source of hacked mate rial released by WikiLeaks during the 2016 election that damaged Hillary Clin ton’s campaign. Mueller’s office is trying to deter mine whether Stone and other associates of Presi dent Donald Trump had advance knowledge of WikiLeaks’ plans. The confirmation of plea talks comes as Muel ler’s team has just received fresh information from Trump personally and as federal prosecutors in Virginia recently inadver tently disclosed the exis tence of sealed charges against WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange. It’s unclear if the charges against Assange are related to Mueller’s investigation, but WikiLeaks was singled out in an indictment last summer against a group of Russian intelligence officers accused of carry ing out the wide-ranging hack of Clinton’s campaign and other Democratic organizations. It’s also not known if any plea by Corsi signals a new raft of charges by the special counsel or just that investigators are aggres sively pursuing cases against people they believe the Manufacturer’ •16 Colors in Stock •Delivery Available (770)886-3880 www.metalroofingsalesinc.com 82 Etowah River Rd. Dawsonville, GA made false statements to investigators. Mueller has brought such cases against four others, including former national security adviser Michael Flynn. In a brief phone call with the AP, Corsi did not elabo rate on details of any plea deal or say if a court hear ing had been set. Corsi, the former Wash ington bureau chief of the conspiracy theory outlet InfoWars, has said he coop erated with the probe for about two months after he received a sub poena in August. As part of that cooperation, he turned over two computers and a cell phone and provided the FBI access to his email accounts and tweets. But he said this month talks with investigators recently had “blown up.” “I fully anticipate that in the next few days, I will be indicted by Mueller,” he said. The spokesman for the special counsel, Peter Carr, declined comment on Friday. After his YouTube show appearance, Corsi broke off an interview with NBC News and declined any other media interviews. His comments Friday were the first since then. Stone has denied being a conduit for WikiLeaks, which published thousands of emails stolen from Clin ton campaign chairman John Podesta in the weeks before the election. Stone, who has said he is prepared to be indicted, said earlier this month that he “had no advanced notice of the source or content or the exact timing of the release of the WikiLeaks disclosures.” He told AP in a sepa rate statement Friday, “It is clear from his recent videos and his recent interviews that my friend Dr. Corsi has been under a tremendous amount of pressure and it is beginning to affect him profoundly. He has stated publicly that he is being asked over and over to say things he simply does not believe occurred.” Associated Press HOOVER — Police responding to a fight inside an Alabama shop ping mall shot and killed a man who had brandished a weapon, authorities said Friday. Two other people were injured, including a 12-year-old girl. The Hoover Police Department said in a state ment that two men were engaged in a “physical altercation” at the glitzy Riverchase Galleria in Hoover late Thursday, when one of the men pulled out a handgun and shot the other man twice. Two officers who were providing security at the mall heard the gunfire and approached the area. They spotted a suspect wav ing a pistol and shot him. He died at the scene. His name was not immediately released, but police said he was 21 years old and from Huey town. The other shooting vic tim was an 18-year-old male from Birmingham. He was taken to a nearby hos pital in serious condition. A 12-year-old bystander was also shot and taken to Chil dren’s Hospital by a Hoover Fire Department rescue squad. Police said the fight hap pened on the mail’s second floor concourse area, near the entrance to the Footac- tion shoe store. Capt. Greg Rector said at a news con ference that investigators do not know what sparked the original confrontation between the men. A witness, Lexi Joiner, told Al.com she was shop ping with her mother when the gunfire started. Joiner said she heard six or seven shots and was ordered, along with some other shop pers, into a supply closet for cover. “It was terrifying,” Joiner said. 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