Justice Department Sues Roger Stone for $2 Million in Unpaid Taxes
The government said Stone and his wife used a corporate entity to avoid paying taxes and to “fund a lavish lifestyle.”
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Barr Defends Protest Response in Fiery House Hearing
Attorney General William Barr on Tuesday defended the Trump administration’s use of federal agents to respond to racial justice protests, as Democrats accused him of seeking conflict in the streets and using the Justice Department to aid the president’s re-election bid.
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Clemency for Stone Runs the Full Gamut, DOJ Asserts
Clarifying the terms of Roger Stone’s get-out-of-jail-free card, the Justice Department on Monday released President Donald Trump’s order of clemency for the convicted political strategist.
Read moreMueller Defends Russia Probe, Says Stone Remains a Felon
Former special counsel Robert Mueller sharply defended his investigation into ties between Russia and Donald Trump’s 2016 presidential campaign, writing in a newspaper opinion piece Saturday that the probe was of “paramount importance” and asserting that a Trump ally, Roger Stone, “remains a convicted felon, and rightly so” despite the president’s decision to commute his prison sentence.
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Trump Commutes Sentence of Ally Roger Stone
President Donald Trump commuted the sentence of Roger Stone late Friday, erasing the 40-month sentence handed down in February after a jury convicted the longtime Trump ally of lying to Congress and witness tampering.
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Roger Stone Asks DC Circuit to Delay Start of Prison Sentence Due to Covid-19
Roger Stone wants the D.C. Circuit to delay his surrender to federal prison, citing coronavirus flare-ups in the federal facility where the longtime and now-convicted ally to President Donald Trump is set to serve out his sentence.
Read moreRoger Stone Ordered to Report to Prison July 14
A federal judge on Friday granted Roger Stone two extra weeks before he must report to prison, after the convicted confidant of President Donald Trump requested a delay due to the coronavirus pandemic.
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Prosecutors Warn of Politicization in Justice Department
Reigniting calls for Attorney General William Barr’s impeachment, two Justice Department attorneys told a House panel Wednesday politics have infested some of the agency’s highest-profile actions, including the prosecution of Roger Stone.
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Prosecutor Details High-Level Pressure to Go Easy on Roger Stone
Roger Stone made his latest play to avoid prison time Tuesday, just after explosive testimony from a federal prosecutor went public revealing deep and unprecedented political entanglements in the criminal case of the president’s longtime ally.
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Justice Department Releases Less-Redacted Mueller Report
The Justice Department on Friday released a less-redacted version of former special counsel Robert Mueller’s report, showing Mueller considered whether President Donald Trump lied about conversations he had with Roger Stone regarding WikiLeaks.
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Former DOJ Officials Call on Attorney General to Step Down
Nearly 2,000 former Justice Department officials called for Attorney General William Barr to resign Monday over what they said was his egregious role in the government dropping the case against President Donald Trump’s former national security adviser Michael Flynn.
Read moreBiding His Time to Pardon, Roger Stone Appeals to DC Circuit
Having slung mud unsuccessfully at both judge and jury, Roger Stone opened a new wave of attack at the D.C. Circuit to overturn his conviction on charges from special counsel Robert Mueller.
Read moreFederal Judge Denies New Trial for Roger Stone
Finding insufficient evidence that the foreperson of his jury was biased against him, a federal judge in Washington on Thursday denied longtime GOP strategist and Trump confidante Roger Stone’s request for a new trial.
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FOIA warrior Jason Leopold sued the Department of Justice in federal court for records on its sentencing records on Roger Stone, and President Trump’s involvement in it, in federal court.
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Roger Stone Warned to Tread Carefully With Biased-Juror Claim
In a dramatic turn of events in the case of President Donald Trump’s confidante Roger Stone, the judge called the jury foreperson attacked by Trump to the witness stand Tuesday in a hearing to determine whether Stone should get a new trial.
Read moreJudge Denies Roger Stone’s Motion to Kick Her Off the Case
The federal judge in Roger Stone’s criminal trial quickly denied the president’s long-time ally his motion to remove her from the case due to his claim that she was biased in saying the jurors who found him guilty served with integrity.
Read moreRoger Stone Seeks to Disqualify Judge Based on Her Comments on the Jury
President Donald Trump’s long time friend and ally Roger Stone filed a motion late Friday to have U.S. District Judge Amy Berman Jackson kicked off his criminal case, claiming her statements at his sentencing this week disqualified her.
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Trump Says Stone Has High Chance of Being Exonerated
Hours after a federal judge sentenced Roger Stone to more than three years in prison, President Donald Trump took to the stage of a graduation ceremony for former prisoners Thursday and said his longtime friend and ally was treated unfairly by the courts.
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Judge Sentences Stone to 40 Months, Scorches Meddling at Justice
Roger Stone was sentenced Thursday to 40 months in prison — a match for the recommendation made more lenient by the Justice Department after President Donald Trump weighed in on the treatment of his longtime political ally.
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Trump Offered to Pardon Assange if He Cleared Russia on Hack, Lawyers Say
President Donald Trump offered WikiLeaks leader Julian Assange a pardon, a London court heard Wednesday, with one condition: Deny that it was Russian hackers who provided the leaked emails damaging to Hillary Clinton’s 2016 presidential campaign.
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