Mueller seeking to question ‘Manhattan madam,’ a friend of Roger Stone, in Russia probe, she says

The following article by Manuel Roig-Franzia was posted on the Washington Post website July 20, 2018:

Roger Stone and Kristin Davis leave court in New York on March 30, 2017. Credit: Seth Wenig, AP

Investigators in special counsel Robert S. Mueller III’s office have notified an attorney for Kristin Davis, who gained notoriety in the 2000s for running a high-end prostitution ring, that they intend to question her as part of their probe of Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election, Davis said Friday.

Davis, who is known as the “Manhattan Madam,” said she expects to be asked about her close friend, Roger Stone, a political operative and longtime confidant of President Trump. It comes one week after prosecutors unveiled an indictment of 12 Russian intelligence officers who allegedly conspired to hack Democrats during the campaign.

Stone was not named in the indictment, but messages cited by prosecutors match communications that he says he had with the Twitter persona Guccifer 2.0, who had claimed online to be a Romanian hacker.

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