Roger Stone Faces Possible 7-9 Year Prison Term

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HuffPost

Roger Stone Sentenced To 40 Months For Lying To Congress, Witness Tampering

Sebastian Murdock

HuffPostFebruary 20, 2020, 12:35 PM EST

 

 

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Roger Stone, a political consultant and longtime ally to President Donald Trump, was sentenced to 40 months on Thursday after being convicted of lying to Congress and witness tampering.

Prosecutors initially recommended a sentence of seven to nine years in federal prison for Stone, but Attorney General William Barr had other ideas. Earlier this month, Department of Justice leadership took the unprecedented step of walking back federal prosecutors’ sentencing recommendation shortly after a 2 a.m. Trump tweet whining that it was “a horrible and very unfair situation” for Stone.

The entire prosecution team resigned after the DOJ’s new recommendation on Stone’s sentencing. 

The rare crisis prompted the Federal Judges Association ― made up of 1,100 members ― to call for an emergency meeting on Tuesday to address concerns that the DOJ is meddling in political cases that should be left to federal judges and prosecutors.

Judge Amy Berman Jackson (whom Stone previously attacked in an Instagram post that he later had to delete and apologize for) ultimately decided on the felon’s sentencing. Stone’s lawyers attempted and failed to delay the sentencing earlier in the week.

Stone was found guilty in November of lying to congressional investigators about Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election. He was convicted on all seven counts he was charged with, including obstructing an official proceeding and witness tampering.

Stone had previously bragged about his connection to WikiLeaks, the shady information hub that released a trove of hacked emails from the Democratic National Committee. He later lied to Congress about his connection with WikiLeaks. Rick Gates, a former Trump campaign official, testified that he was in communication with Stone and believed the political operative had inside access to WikiLeaks. 

On Tuesday, Trump called for the case against Stone to be thrown out entirely.

 

https://www.yahoo.com/huffpost/roger-stone-sentenced-173532174.html

 

presidential pardon countdown clock engaged.  

 

GO RV, then BV

Edited February 20, 2020 by Shabibilicious

[Karsten]

 

Karsten

[coorslite21]

4 hours ago, Shabibilicious said:

HuffPost

Roger Stone Sentenced To 40 Months For Lying To Congress, Witness Tampering

Sebastian Murdock

HuffPostFebruary 20, 2020, 12:35 PM EST

 

 

Scroll back up to restore default view.

Roger Stone, a political consultant and longtime ally to President Donald Trump, was sentenced to 40 months on Thursday after being convicted of lying to Congress and witness tampering.

Prosecutors initially recommended a sentence of seven to nine years in federal prison for Stone, but Attorney General William Barr had other ideas. Earlier this month, Department of Justice leadership took the unprecedented step of walking back federal prosecutors’ sentencing recommendation shortly after a 2 a.m. Trump tweet whining that it was “a horrible and very unfair situation” for Stone.

The entire prosecution team resigned after the DOJ’s new recommendation on Stone’s sentencing. 

The rare crisis prompted the Federal Judges Association ― made up of 1,100 members ― to call for an emergency meeting on Tuesday to address concerns that the DOJ is meddling in political cases that should be left to federal judges and prosecutors.

Judge Amy Berman Jackson (whom Stone previously attacked in an Instagram post that he later had to delete and apologize for) ultimately decided on the felon’s sentencing. Stone’s lawyers attempted and failed to delay the sentencing earlier in the week.

Stone was found guilty in November of lying to congressional investigators about Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election. He was convicted on all seven counts he was charged with, including obstructing an official proceeding and witness tampering.

Stone had previously bragged about his connection to WikiLeaks, the shady information hub that released a trove of hacked emails from the Democratic National Committee. He later lied to Congress about his connection with WikiLeaks. Rick Gates, a former Trump campaign official, testified that he was in communication with Stone and believed the political operative had inside access to WikiLeaks. 

On Tuesday, Trump called for the case against Stone to be thrown out entirely.

 

https://www.yahoo.com/huffpost/roger-stone-sentenced-173532174.html

 

presidential pardon countdown clock engaged.  

 

GO RV, then BV

 

Just a little reality here......Barr claimed the 7-9 years suggested by the 4 prosecutors was excessive......(were you aware 3 of them worked on the Mueller team...where the top 17 of that investigation were all democrats?)

 

The sentencing guidelines Barr suggested were 36-42 months...so Ms. Judge was right there with Barr.

 

Given the info that it is out on the lead juror.....many, including Barr believe the Stone case should be retried...a week or two will answer that question.....

 

The Durham investigation has taken a long time.....we all know some about that investigation.....what was added to it was the investigation of the Mueller report.....how the team was put together, possible bias.....and of course at what point was it known there was no "there" there....it may have actually been within the first week.....it certainly was before the mid-terms......If Durham comes up with conclusive evidence on this......an attempt to alter an election......add another large number in legal peril...

It should be worth the wait....

CL

[Theseus]

No mention in the Puffington post about the female foreman who was an anti-trump activist that tainted the jury pool thus the judge delayed the implementation of the sentence until the judge ruled on that. Stone will more than likely get a new trial in which the state will very likely not pursue.

[Shabibilicious]

15 hours ago, coorslite21 said:

 

Just a little reality here......Barr claimed the 7-9 years suggested by the 4 prosecutors was excessive......(were you aware 3 of them worked on the Mueller team...where the top 17 of that investigation were all democrats?)

 

The sentencing guidelines Barr suggested were 36-42 months...so Ms. Judge was right there with Barr.

 

Given the info that it is out on the lead juror.....many, including Barr believe the Stone case should be retried...a week or two will answer that question.....

 

The Durham investigation has taken a long time.....we all know some about that investigation.....what was added to it was the investigation of the Mueller report.....how the team was put together, possible bias.....and of course at what point was it known there was no "there" there....it may have actually been within the first week.....it certainly was before the mid-terms......If Durham comes up with conclusive evidence on this......an attempt to alter an election......add another large number in legal peril...

It should be worth the wait....

CL

 

It's my opinion that the judge's length of sentence for Stone being in line with A.G. Barr's recommendation makes it much more difficult for Trump to pardon Stone without facing severe backlash from congress, Democrats for sure, but from some prominent GOP folks as well.  

 

GO RV, then BV

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Politics

'Breathtaking act of corruption': Trump warned against pardoning longtime ally Stone

John T Bennett

The IndependentFebruary 20, 2020, 2:22 PM EST

 

Critics of Donald Trump applauded a three-year prison sentence for his longtime pal and political adviser Roger Stone, with a top House Democrat saying a pardon would be a "breathtaking act of corruption."

A federal judge sentenced the longtime GOP political operative to 40 months behind bars on Thursday for lying to Congress and obstructing Special Counsel Robert S. Mueller III's Russia election meddling probe. During a lengthy statement she read before handing down the sentence, Judge Amy Berman Jackson said bluntly that Mr Stone was convicted of "covering up for the president."

He came under investigators' scrutiny for his contacts with Russians and alleged contacts with Wikileaks, which published reams of hacked emails from Democratic servers and personal email accounts with the goal of hurting Hillarious Clinton's 2016 campaign.

AP

Mr Trump groused about the coming sentence as Ms Berman Jackson harshly criticised Mr Stone in a Washington courtroom. The president recently called the Justice Department's initial-then former-then final recommendation of a sentence between seven and nine years a "miscarriage of justice" while also floating the notion of a pardon.

As expected, the president's critics were quick to applaud the 40-month sentence.

"Roger Stone was found guilty of lying to Congress and threatening a witness. He did it to cover up for Trump. His sentence is justified," tweeted House Intelligence Committee Chairman Adam Schiff, Democrats' lead impeachment manager in the trial that led to Mr Trump's acquittal on two counts.

"It should go without saying," the California Democrat added, "but to pardon Stone when his crimes were committed to protect Trump would be a breathtaking act of corruption."

Mieke Eoyang, a former senior aide to the late Senator Ted Kennedy of Massachusetts and Democrats' staff director on the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, wondered on Twitter just why the president got involved.

"At the end of the day, Trump's interference with the sentencing, leading to the withdrawal/resignation of career prosecutors, and doubt casting on DOJ's independence, was totally unnecessary," she wrote. "A whole lot of sound and fury, signifying nothing."

 

https://www.yahoo.com/news/breathtaking-act-corruption-trump-warned-191842490.html

 

GO RV, then BV

[Theseus]

Schifty Eye Schiff is telling Trump to NOT do something. Why because Schifty Eye Schiff has his wide psycho eyes on him? Nah Trump may implement all powers afforded him as President and nothing Schiff can do about it, except maybe try to bring another falsetto of a claim of something that he made up for his new screenplay. Even Hollywood doesn't like the mentally ill bugged eye Schiester. I hope Trump pardons Stone, Page and others involved with this fiasco they called the Meuller investigation. It's okay though the bugged eye Schiester only has until January before he loses his post as Chairman of the Intelligence Committee. Which is an Oxymoron because the bugged eye moron displayed little if any intelligence the entire time he has been in office.

Edited February 21, 2020 by Theseus

[Karsten]

Roger Stone Not Going Down Without A Fight — Files Motion To Disqualify Judge In His Case

 

https://en-volve.com/2020/02/22/roger-stone-not-going-down-without-a-fight-files-motion-to-disqualify-judge-in-his-case/

 

Karsten

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Humm....I see a trend developing here from the player on the Get Trump at any Cost Team......Force them to "Plead Guilty" no matter what lies they have to make up.

 

Woman Goes Public over Traumatic Mueller Interrogation That Forced Her to Flee US

 

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Politico

Judge won’t bow out of Roger Stone case

By Josh Gerstein

PoliticoFebruary 23, 2020, 7:38 PM EST

 

 

Judge won’t bow out of Roger Stone case

The federal judge who sentenced President Donald Trump's longtime adviser Roger Stone to more than three years in prison last week has decisively rejected a defense request that she drop off the case before ruling on a pending new trial motion challenging the conduct of a juror at his trial.

U.S. District Court Judge Amy Berman Jackson's sharply worded order also dressed down Stone's defense team for using the court's docket to air what she said were meritless claims that she is biased against him.

"At bottom, given the absence of any factual or legal support for the motion for disqualification, the pleading appears to be nothing more than an attempt to use the Court’s docket to disseminate a statement for public consumption that has the words 'judge' and 'biased' in it," Jackson wrote Sunday.

In recent days, Trump has used Twitter to suggest that Jackson is biased and has used social media and public speeches to endorse claims by Stone's allies that the jury foreperson harbored antipathy to him.

Just one day after Stone's sentencing last week, his defense filed a motion asking Jackson to recuse herself from a pending motion for new trial that alleges a juror at his weeklong trial last November did not give accurate answers when questioned by the court.

The jury took about a day to unanimously find Stone guilty on all seven counts he faced related to impeding Congressional and Justice Department investigations into Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election.

The recusal motion argued that Jackson evinced bias because during the sentencing hearing Thursday she said the jurors in the case "served with integrity." But in a six-page order released Sunday evening, the Obama-appointed judge said her remark fell well short of the kind of evidence of bias that would require a judge to step aside.

"Judges cannot be 'biased' and need not be disqualified if the views they express are based on what they learned while doing the job they were appointed to do," Jackson wrote, noting that recusal for bias typically stems from statements judges make outside of court or when they opine on issues in the case in unofficial settings.

"The defendant has not suggested that the Court said one word about him outside of the courtroom, or to anyone other than the parties, at any time. Its characterization of the jurors’ service was voiced on the record, and it was entirely and fairly based on the Court’s observations of the jurors in the courthouse; through the nine days of voir dire and trial, when they were uniformly punctual and attentive, and through their thoughtful communications with the Court during deliberation ... and the delivery of the verdict," Jackson said.

Jackson said she wasn't addressing the jury-related motion when she made the brief remark Thursday, but even if she was, she had already heard from both sides in writing on the jury issue and was free to comment or even rule on it.

"If parties could move to disqualify every judge who furrows his brow at one side or the other before ruling, the entire court system would come to a standstill," the judge warned.

The order contains more indications that Jackson has grown frustrated with and irritated by Stone's defense team. During the sentencing Thursday, she excoriated the defense over its closing argument, riffing on the refrain of "So what?" that the defense used in its unsuccessful bid to get jurors to acquit Stone.

"So what? So what? Of all the circumstances in this case, that may be the most pernicious," the judge declared during her nearly 45-minute statement pronouncing the sentence to a packed courtroom in Washington. "The truth still exists. The truth still matters. Roger Stone's insistence that it doesn't, his belligerence, his pride in his own lies are a threat to our most fundamental institutions, to the very foundation of our democracy."

Stone's motion for a new trial remains pending before Jackson with the defense's next filing on the issue due Monday. She said last week she had not decided whether or not to hold a hearing on the motion.

The judge has ordered that Stone not be required to report to jail to serve his 40-month sentence for at least two weeks after she rules on the motion for a new trial. Stone's allies are also lobbying Trump to pardon him, although the president has said he wants to allow the process to play out and has predicted Stone will be "exonerated."

 

https://www.yahoo.com/news/judge-won-t-bow-roger-003829349.html

 

GO RV, then BV

[coorslite21]

5 hours ago, Shabibilicious said:

Politico

Judge won’t bow out of Roger Stone case

By Josh Gerstein

PoliticoFebruary 23, 2020, 7:38 PM EST

 

 

Judge won’t bow out of Roger Stone case

The federal judge who sentenced President Donald Trump's longtime adviser Roger Stone to more than three years in prison last week has decisively rejected a defense request that she drop off the case before ruling on a pending new trial motion challenging the conduct of a juror at his trial.

U.S. District Court Judge Amy Berman Jackson's sharply worded order also dressed down Stone's defense team for using the court's docket to air what she said were meritless claims that she is biased against him.

"At bottom, given the absence of any factual or legal support system" rel="">support for the motion for disqualification, the pleading appears to be nothing more than an attempt to use the Court’s docket to disseminate a statement for public consumption that has the words 'judge' and 'biased' in it," Jackson wrote Sunday.

In recent days, Trump has used Twitter to suggest that Jackson is biased and has used social media and public speeches to endorse claims by Stone's allies that the jury foreperson harbored antipathy to him.

Just one day after Stone's sentencing last week, his defense filed a motion asking Jackson to recuse herself from a pending motion for new trial that alleges a juror at his weeklong trial last November did not give accurate answers when questioned by the court.

The jury took about a day to unanimously find Stone guilty on all seven counts he faced related to impeding Congressional and Justice Department investigations into Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election.

The recusal motion argued that Jackson evinced bias because during the sentencing hearing Thursday she said the jurors in the case "served with integrity." But in a six-page order released Sunday evening, the Obama-appointed judge said her remark fell well short of the kind of evidence of bias that would require a judge to step aside.

"Judges cannot be 'biased' and need not be disqualified if the views they express are based on what they learned while doing the job they were appointed to do," Jackson wrote, noting that recusal for bias typically stems from statements judges make outside of court or when they opine on issues in the case in unofficial settings.

"The defendant has not suggested that the Court said one word about him outside of the courtroom, or to anyone other than the parties, at any time. Its characterization of the jurors’ service was voiced on the record, and it was entirely and fairly based on the Court’s observations of the jurors in the courthouse; through the nine days of voir dire and trial, when they were uniformly punctual and attentive, and through their thoughtful communications with the Court during deliberation ... and the delivery of the verdict," Jackson said.

Jackson said she wasn't addressing the jury-related motion when she made the brief remark Thursday, but even if she was, she had already heard from both sides in writing on the jury issue and was free to comment or even rule on it.

"If parties could move to disqualify every judge who furrows his brow at one side or the other before ruling, the entire court system would come to a standstill," the judge warned.

The order contains more indications that Jackson has grown frustrated with and irritated by Stone's defense team. During the sentencing Thursday, she excoriated the defense over its closing argument, riffing on the refrain of "So what?" that the defense used in its unsuccessful bid to get jurors to acquit Stone.

"So what? So what? Of all the circumstances in this case, that may be the most pernicious," the judge declared during her nearly 45-minute statement pronouncing the sentence to a packed courtroom in Washington. "The truth still exists. The truth still matters. Roger Stone's insistence that it doesn't, his belligerence, his pride in his own lies are a threat to our most fundamental institutions, to the very foundation of our democracy."

Stone's motion for a new trial remains pending before Jackson with the defense's next filing on the issue due Monday. She said last week she had not decided whether or not to hold a hearing on the motion.

The judge has ordered that Stone not be required to report to jail to serve his 40-month sentence for at least two weeks after she rules on the motion for a new trial. Stone's allies are also lobbying Trump to pardon him, although the president has said he wants to allow the process to play out and has predicted Stone will be "exonerated."

 

https://www.yahoo.com/news/judge-won-t-bow-roger-003829349.html

 

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Judge Jackson will have to rule on a possible retrial this week......the lead juror was biased......at the very least she needs to put that individual on the stand, under oath to testify to questions by the defense....where it goes from there......time will tell......CL