Jerome Corsi

Jerome Robert Corsi (born August 31, 1946) is an American conspiracy theorist and author.

He graduated from St. Ignatius High School in 1964, and graduated from Case Western Reserve University in 1968.

He received a PhD in political science from Harvard University in 1972.

In 1972 Corsi published his doctoral dissertation, Prior Restraint, Prior Punishment, and Political Dissent: A Moral and Legal Evaluation, which discussed the 1968 Democratic National Convention and Vietnam War protests in the context of government tolerance of "internal political activism."

His dissertation advisor was Michael Walzer.

Corsi began to work in banking and finance in 1981.

In 1995 he helped launch a mutual fund to invest in formerly communist Poland after the fall of the Soviet Union, which eventually lost $1.2 million (~$ in ), much of it from a group of about 20 Minnesota investors.

Some of the investors blamed the organizers, including Corsi, for their investment in the formerly Communist country.

Two investors sued Corsi and his partners, claiming that the organizers had given their personal guarantee backing up the investment, and won judgments against them.

They did not collect from Corsi, because, as one investor claimed, the money "had been moved into his wife's name ... There was nothing to get out of him".

The FBI found no basis for bringing criminal charges.

His two New York Times best-selling books, Unfit for Command (2004) and The Obama Nation (2008), attacked Democratic presidential candidates and have been criticized by opposition.

In other books and columns for conservative to right-wing websites such as WorldNetDaily and Human Events, Corsi has discussed conspiracy theories, such as the alleged plans for a North American Union government; the "birther" claims that President Barack Obama is not a United States citizen; criticism of the United States government for allegedly covering up information about the September 11 attacks; and alleged United States support of Iran in its attempts to develop nuclear weapons.

Until his 2004 book, Corsi was a financial services marketing specialist.

In January 2005, Corsi told the Boston Herald that he planned to run for John Kerry's Senate seat in Massachusetts in 2008 as a Republican or Independent candidate.

In 2017, he became the Washington, D.C., bureau chief for the conspiracy theory website InfoWars but no longer works for the website.

In January 2017, Corsi announced that he was leaving his position as a senior staff writer for far right fringe website WorldNetDaily to open and lead the Washington, D.C., bureau for conspiracy theory website InfoWars.

In 2018, Corsi was subpoenaed by the Mueller special counsel investigation over his contacts with former Donald Trump adviser Roger Stone and foreknowledge of WikiLeaks releases of stolen Clinton emails.

Corsi claimed that he turned down a plea deal with Robert Mueller, and denied any such contacts or knowledge.

Draft court documents released in November showed that he emailed Stone several times, updating him about impending WikiLeaks releases of stolen emails.

By mid-2018, he was no longer working there.

In September 2018, Corsi was subpoenaed to testify in the Special Counsel investigation, reportedly for his contacts with Roger Stone.

Corsi also turned over computer, phone, and email records.

The Office of the Special Counsel reportedly has information suggesting Corsi possessed advance knowledge that WikiLeaks had obtained the hacked emails of John Podesta.

Corsi has denied that he had any advance knowledge of the hack, or that he has had any communication with anyone involved in the hack.

Corsi announced on November 12, 2018, that he expected to be indicted for perjury within days.

Eleven days later he confirmed he had entered plea negotiations with Mueller prosecutors.

On November 26, 2018, Corsi stated that he rejected the plea deal brought by the Special Counsel to plead guilty to one count of perjury; he stated that he rejected it because he did not willfully mislead anyone.

Draft court documents, released in November, showed that two months before WikiLeaks released emails stolen from the Clinton campaign, Corsi sent emails to Trump campaign adviser Roger Stone informing him that WikiLeaks was going to publish the emails in two "dumps", giving dates of the planned releases and that the "impact planned" would be "very damaging."

Stone also sent Corsi an email directing him to contact Julian Assange "and get the pending (WikiLeaks) emails."

Corsi told Mueller's investigators he ignored the direction, but investigators found he had passed it to an associate in London, whom Corsi later identified as Ted Malloch, who had worked with the Trump campaign and been questioned by Mueller's investigators in April 2018.

Corsi retained attorney Larry Klayman, who in December filed (on Corsi's behalf) a request for an investigation into the Special Counsel's tactics and a lawsuit alleging Mueller and other government actors violated Corsi's constitutional rights and leaked grand jury secrets;

In November 2019, Stone was convicted of lying to Congress and other charges.

Stone had testified to Congress that Randy Credico was his WikiLeaks go-between, but prosecutors said this was a lie in order to protect Corsi.

Corsi was born in East Cleveland, Ohio, to Alice (Hanlon) Corsi and Louis E. Corsi, a Democratic Party activist and a leader of the United Transportation Union.

In 2019, Corsi unsuccessfully sued InfoWars and Alex Jones for defamation.

On January 25, 2019, Corsi confirmed that he is "Person 1" cited in the federal indictment of Roger Stone and predicted that he won't face charges.

"Dr. Corsi has reviewed the indictment of Roger Stone which references him as Person 1. The Stone Indictment does not accuse Dr. Corsi of any wrongdoing and indeed this is the case. Dr. Corsi has fully cooperated with the Special Counsel and his prosecutors and testified truthfully to the grand jury, as well as during interviews with them", Corsi said through his legal counsel, Larry Klayman and David Gray.

On February 7, Corsi sued Stone for defamation.

In an April 21 article, The Washington Post reported Corsi's lawyer, David Gray, asserting investigators were "dumbfounded" by Corsi's inconsistent testimony, and Gray himself found some of it "concerning".