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RUSSIA PROBE: Trump’s campaign associate arrested in Florida for tampering with evidence

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RUSSIA PROBE: Trump's campaign associate arrested in Florida for tampering with evidence

The probe into Russia’s influence into the last presidential election which brought Donald Trump into power continues to get hotter as his longtime ally Roger Stone was arrested on Friday .

Reports say Stone who is Trump’s campaign associate was arrested on charges of obstruction, witness tampering and making false statements related to the release of stolen Democratic Party emails during the presidential campaign in 2016.

He is now scheduled to appear at the federal courthouse in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, at 11 am EST (1600 GMT).

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The development is coming days after a report by Buzzfeed news which revealed that Trump personally directed his ex-lawyer Michael Cohen to lie to Congress about a possible Moscow real estate project was described as inaccurate by special counsel Robert Mueller.

The office of the special counsel disputed key elements of the media report raising questions about the story which dominated U.S. news coverage last week.

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