Ultimately they say Stone presented no evidence "that suggests that Russia was not involved in the hack."
"For example, allegations concerning the time stamps and the time signatures would be equally consistent with Russia intelligence officers using a thumb drive to transfer hacked materials among themselves after the hack took place," prosecutors wrote. "Similarly, the time zone analysis is wholly consistent with the fact that the victims were in the Eastern Daylight Time Zone, rather than providing any information regarding the location of the perpetrators.
And prosecutors also emphasized that their search warrants for Stone would be valid even if his claims about the origin of the hacks were true. Prosecutors indicated they obtained their first search warrant against Stone in August 2017, more than a year before his indictment and they obtained another 17 through February 2019. Of those, 12 were signed off on by Washington’s federal district court chief judge Beryl Howell, three others were approved by other D.C.-based judges, and three more were backed by judges in New York and Florida.
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