Mueller has yet to tip his hand on whether he believes Stone, although he has devoted significant resources to the question.

On Monday, though, Stone admitted that he used his platform on Infowars, the far-right conspiracy website founded by Alex Jones, to spread false information in another case.

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To settle a lawsuit seeking $100 million in damages from Guo Wengui, an exiled Chinese businessman, Stone admitted that he “failed to do proper research” before accusing Guo of violating U.S. election law by donating money to Hillary Clinton’s campaign. Stone also falsely accused Guo, who is also known as Miles Kwok, of funding a presidential run by Stephen K. Bannon and being convicted of financial crimes.

In a statement sent to The Washington Post, Stone blamed the falsehoods on Sam Nunberg, a former Trump aide who has now testified before a special counsel’s grand jury.

“I made the error of relying on the representations of Sam Nunberg in my report on this matter and for that I apologized,” Stone said.

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Nunberg declined to comment on Stone’s claims.

Guo sued Stone in federal court in Florida in March over the false claims on Infowars. The businessman fled China in 2014 and has since become a loud critic of the Chinese government, which has tried to have him arrested and returned to Beijing.

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Stone accused him of breaking U.S. election law, which forbids foreign nationals from donating to political campaigns. But in Stone’s new settlement, he admits that “all of these statements are not true” and claims that Nunberg fed him false information that came from Bruno Wu, a Chinese American businessman whom Guo has accused of being a Chinese spy. Wu is suing Guo for defamation over those claims, the Wall Street Journal reports. A spokesman for Wu’s company did not immediately respond to a message from The Post about Stone’s allegations; Wu declined to comment to the Journal.

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In addition to admitting in court documents that he spread falsehoods, Stone agreed to share his statement via Facebook and Instagram and to take out ads in The Washington Post, New York Times and Wall Street Journal.

As of Monday night, Stone had not yet shared the statement with his more than 28,000 Instagram followers. (However, he directed The Washington Post to a local news story about a lie detector test he paid for that purports to show that he is telling the truth about his lack of collusion with Russia in 2016.)

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He posted an advertisement for the “perfect gift for patriots”: A Roger “stone,” a small rock autographed by the political operative himself that he is selling for $8 each, on sale from the original $10 sticker price.

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“All proceeds go to the Stone Defense Fund to help me fight Robert Mueller and the Deep State,” Stone promised on Instagram.