Could this be a criminal helping his fellow criminal, or just criminal #1 covering his butt?
Feb 11, 2020 16:14:17 #
I of course can only wonder what it was that trump was reminded of when when he felt compelled to amend recommendations of Stone time behind bars for his multiple convictions...
Did trump also promise to pardon Stone before his term ends in Jan of 2021... One can only conjecture on how much trump is compelled to pay for silence..
much less then paying to Putin for his silence.
https://www.cnn.com/2020/02/11/politics/roger-stone-sentencing-justice-department/index.html
Justice Department undercuts own prosecutors on Trump ally Stone's sentencing
By David Shortell, Evan Perez and Katelyn Polantz, CNN
Updated 4:02 PM ET, Tue February 11, 2020
Top Justice Department officials are taking the extraordinary step of disavowing and undercutting their own federal prosecutors, announcing plans to reduce the government's sentence recommended for longtime Donald Trump confidante Roger Stone, a senior department official said Tuesday.
The stunning and politically charged decision, which is expected to be filed in Washington, DC, federal court later Tuesday, comes hours after Trump publicly criticized the recommendation. It immediately raised questions about the Justice Department's independence from political pressure, and soon after the announcement, a prosecutor who worked on the case against Stone asked to withdraw from the case and resigned from the DC US attorney's office, where he had been temporarily assigned from another office.
Prosecutors from the US Attorney's office in Washington, who are employees of the Justice Department, had said Monday that Stone should be sentenced to seven to nine years in prison after he was convicted on seven charges last year that derived from former special counsel Robert Mueller's investigation, including lying to Congress and witness tampering.
That recommendation led Trump overnight Tuesday to bemoan what he called a "horrible and very unfair situation."
Did trump also promise to pardon Stone before his term ends in Jan of 2021... One can only conjecture on how much trump is compelled to pay for silence..
much less then paying to Putin for his silence.
https://www.cnn.com/2020/02/11/politics/roger-stone-sentencing-justice-department/index.html
Justice Department undercuts own prosecutors on Trump ally Stone's sentencing
By David Shortell, Evan Perez and Katelyn Polantz, CNN
Updated 4:02 PM ET, Tue February 11, 2020
Top Justice Department officials are taking the extraordinary step of disavowing and undercutting their own federal prosecutors, announcing plans to reduce the government's sentence recommended for longtime Donald Trump confidante Roger Stone, a senior department official said Tuesday.
The stunning and politically charged decision, which is expected to be filed in Washington, DC, federal court later Tuesday, comes hours after Trump publicly criticized the recommendation. It immediately raised questions about the Justice Department's independence from political pressure, and soon after the announcement, a prosecutor who worked on the case against Stone asked to withdraw from the case and resigned from the DC US attorney's office, where he had been temporarily assigned from another office.
Prosecutors from the US Attorney's office in Washington, who are employees of the Justice Department, had said Monday that Stone should be sentenced to seven to nine years in prison after he was convicted on seven charges last year that derived from former special counsel Robert Mueller's investigation, including lying to Congress and witness tampering.
That recommendation led Trump overnight Tuesday to bemoan what he called a "horrible and very unfair situation."
Feb 11, 2020 16:16:49 #
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