Roger Stone and Michael Caputo met with a Russian national calling himself "Henry Greenberg" in May 2016 at a cafe in Sunny Isles, Florida. Greenberg claimed to have access to damaging information about Hillary Clinton, demanding that Donald Trump pay $2 million for it. Stone reportedly rejected the offer, saying "You don't understand Donald Trump" — implying Trump would not pay. The meeting was arranged by Trump campaign aide Michael Caputo.
Greenberg, also identified as Henry Oknyansky, claimed to be an FBI informant, though records indicated he had stopped working with the agency after 2013. Neither Stone nor Caputo initially disclosed the meeting to congressional investigators probing Russian election interference. Their failure to report the contact raised concerns about consciousness of the meeting's problematic nature. The encounter was first reported by The Washington Post in June 2018.
The meeting represents one of multiple documented contacts between Trump associates and Russian nationals during the 2016 campaign, several of which involved offers of opposition research on Clinton. While Stone rejected this particular offer, the episode illustrates how Russian operatives systematically probed Trump's orbit for opportunities to influence the campaign. Special counsel Robert Mueller investigated the meeting as part of his broader inquiry into Russian interference in the 2016 election.