Roger Stone
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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Intervention in Trump-Linked Cases Spurs Emergency Meeting of Judges
A voluntary group of nearly 1,100 federal judges will meet Wednesday to address Attorney General William Barr’s recent intervention in politically sensitive cases tied to President Donald Trump.
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Judge Keeps Roger Stone Sentencing on Track for Thursday
In her first brush with the Roger Stone case since uproar over prison-time recommendations shook up the Justice Department, a federal judge said Tuesday she will not derail plans to sentence the longtime Trump adviser.
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Fact Check: Trump Lies About Roger Stone Sentence
President Trump is misrepresenting the Justice Department’s handling of the legal case of his confidant, Roger Stone.
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Experts Troubled by Lack of Independence at Trump’s Justice Department
Former federal prosecutors warn the integrity of the Justice Department is in peril after the Trump administration reversed course on former campaign adviser Roger Stone’s sentencing.
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Rule of Law Takes Heavy Damage in Trump’s Weeklong Twitter Barrage
A look back at Donald Trump’s Twitter feed this week tells the story of a president who took aim and fired at the courts as the fallout from his Justice Department reversing its recommended sentence for Roger Stone battered Washington.
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House Democrats Turn Their Gaze to Bill Barr
House Democrats frustrated by the Senate’s acquittal of President Trump are pushing their oversight efforts to the Justice Department and what they call Attorney General William Barr’s efforts to politicize federal law enforcement.
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Trump Attacks on Justice Department Make Job ‘Impossible,’ Barr Says
Attorney General William Barr lashed out at President Donald Trump on Thursday, saying the president’s social media attacks on the Justice Department “make it impossible to do my job” and that “I’m not going to be bullied or influenced by anybody.”
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Ex-US Attorney Who Led Stone Case Exits Trump Administration
The fallout from the Justice Department paring down its sentencing recommendation for Roger Stone continued Thursday with the resignation of the official who previously headed the U.S. attorney’s office in Washington.
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Attorney General Bill Barr Agrees to Testify Before the House
Attorney General Bill Barr will face questions from lawmakers in a much anticipated hearing in March, finally giving Democrats a chance to publicly and formally pore over their concerns that the nation’s chief law enforcement officer is misusing his power to give President Donald Trump political cover.
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Trump Denies Interference in Roger Stone’s Sentencing
President Donald Trump Wednesday declined to say whether he plans to pardon Roger Stone after the Justice Department rolled back a sentencing recommendation for the president’s longtime ally, who was convicted last year of lying to Congress and witness tampering.
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Prosecutors Quit as Justice Dep’t Seeks Lighter Sentence for Stone
The four federal prosecutors who secured the obstruction conviction of longtime Trump ally Roger Stone withdrew from the case Tuesday – with two resigning from the Justice Department – after it dialed back their sentencing recommendation which President Donald Trump had called a “miscarriage of justice.”
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Feds Seek 9-Year Sentence for Trump Adviser Roger Stone
President Donald Trump may have been acquitted of obstructing Congress but the Justice Department seeks nine years in prison for his former adviser Roger Stone.
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Feds to Hand Over Roger Stone Records to Media Outlets
Federal prosecutors told a judge Monday they are prepared to release sealed materials in search and seizure warrants against Roger Stone issued during the FBI probe into the Trump campaign’s ties to Russia.
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