Grant Smith is the lawyer of Roger Stone, the longtime adviser of President Donald Trump arrested by the FBI after his indictment by Bob Mueller.
Feb 14, 2020 ¡ Roger Stone is scheduled to be sentenced on Feb. 20. With his sentencing fast approaching, Roger Stone is bolstering his defense team with a veteran criminal defense attorney whose past roster of ...
The entire team prosecuting Roger Stone abruptly resigned from the criminal case on Tuesday after the Justice Department said it planned to reduce the âŚ
Jan 28, 2019 ¡ In a not-so-brief minute order, U.S. District Judge Deborah A. Robinson criticized attorneys representing President Donald Trumpâs longtime ally and adviser Roger Stone.. The courtâs order noted: On October 25, 2019, this court scheduled an arraignment for 11:00 a.m. on Tuesday, January 29, 2919 [sic]. Thereafter, two lawyers, neither of whom is a member of the âŚ
Mr. Kravis, 42, resigned from his post at the Justice Department after the Attorney General recommended a re-filing of the absolutely absurd 9-year sentence recommended by the prosecutors in the Roger Stone case.
Mr. Zelinsky, 36, was the first of the four prosecutors to file a withdrawal notice in federal court over the re-filing.
Mr. Jed, 38, was part of the cadre of lawyers who worked for Mr. Mueller on the 22-month Russia investigation.
Mr. Marando, 42, became the fourth and final member of the prosecution team who withdrew from the Stone case on Tuesday.
The Justice Department on Tuesday said it was pulling back on its request to sentence Stone to seven to nine years in prison ...
The Justice Department on Tuesday said it was pulling back on its request to sentence Stone to seven to nine years in prison after President Donald Trump blasted the sentencing proposal as "a miscarriage of justice.". The revised recommendation doesn't ask for a particular sentence but says the one that was recommended earlier "does not accurately ...
Former campaign chairman Paul Manafort was sentenced to 47 months in prison last March by a federal judge in Virginia on financial fraud charges, considerably less than the federal guidelines of 19½ to 24 years. The judge in that case, Judge T.S. Ellis, called the guidelines "excessive.". Dartunorro Clark.
He was the sixth Trump aide or adviser to be convicted of charges brought as part of the Mueller probe. The colorful trial in Washington lasted nearly two weeks and featured references to "The Godfather Part II," threats of dognapping, complaints of food poisoning and a gag order.
According to The Times of Israel, Roger Stone "was in contact with one or more apparently well-connected Israelis at the height of the 2016 US presidential campaign, one of whom warned Stone that Trump was âgoing to be defeated unless we interveneâ and promised âwe have critical intell [sic].â The exchange between Stone and this Jerusalem-based contact appears in FBI documents made public".
40 months in federal prison (Stone served no time as President Donald Trump commuted his sentence, then pardoned him.) Roger Jason Stone (born Roger Joseph Stone Jr.; August 27, 1952) is an American conservative political consultant and lobbyist. Since the 1970s, Stone has worked on the campaigns of Republican politicians, including Richard Nixon, ...
Stone officially left the Trump campaign on August 8, 2015.
Early life and political work. Stone was born on August 27, 1952, in Norwalk, Connecticut, to Gloria Rose (Corbo) and Roger J. Stone. He grew up in the community of Vista, part of the town of Lewisboro, New York, on the Connecticut border.
On January 25, 2019, in a pre-dawn raid by 29 FBI agents acting on both an arrest warrant and a search warrant at his Fort Lauderdale, Florida home, Stone was arrested on seven criminal charges of an indictment in the Mueller investigation: one count of obstruction of an official proceeding, five counts of false statements, and one count of witness tampering. The same day, a federal magistrate judge released Stone on a US$250,000 signature bond and declared that he was not a flight risk. Stone said he would fight the charges, which he called politically motivated, and would refuse to âbear false witness" against Trump. He called Robert Mueller a "rogue prosecutor". In the charging document, prosecutors alleged that after the first WikiLeaks release of hacked DNC emails in July 2016, a senior Trump campaign official was directed to contact Stone about any additional releases and determine what other damaging information WikiLeaks had regarding the Clinton campaign. Stone thereafter told the Trump campaign about potential future releases of damaging material by WikiLeaks, the indictment alleged. The indictment also alleged that Stone had discussed WikiLeaks releases with multiple senior Trump campaign officials.
On February 10, 2020, prosecutors from the U.S. Attorney's Office for the District of Columbia requested that Stone be sentenced to seven to nine years in prison for his crimes after securing convictions on all seven charges. Around midnight, Trump characterized the sentencing recommendation as "horrible and very unfair situation" in tweeted, "Cannot allow this miscarriage of justice!" The next morning a senior Justice Department official said the department would recommend a lighter sentence, adding that the decision had been made before Trump commented. That afternoon the Department of Justice filed a revised sentencing memorandum, saying the initial recommendation could be "considered excessive and unwarranted under the circumstances." All four of the Assistant U.S. Attorneys who were prosecuting the case â Jonathan Kravis, Aaron Zelinsky, Adam Jed and Michael Marando â withdrew from the case, and Kravis resigned from the U.S. Attorney's Office altogether. Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer sent a letter to the Department of Justice Inspector General requesting a probe into the reduced sentencing recommendation, over fears of potential improper political interference in the process. Trump later said he had not asked the Justice Department to recommend a lighter sentence, but also asserted he had an "absolute right" to intervene. The next day he praised U.S. Attorney General William Barr for "taking charge" of the case and thanked Justice Department officials for recommending a lesser sentence than was proposed by the prosecutors who tried the case.
On February 12, Judge Amy Berman Jackson denied Stone's motion for a new trial. Stone had asserted that a juror was biased against him. Stone again requested a new trial on February 14, after the jury foreperson of his trial publicly voiced support for the four prosecutors who withdrew from the Stone case. All jurors in the Stone trial had been vetted for potential bias by Judge Jackson, the defense team, and prosecutors.
One of the two AUSAâs in that office who joined the case, Mike Marando, told an interviewer that he was added to the Stone trial team because âthey needed a third prosecutor.â.
Aaron Zelinsky is now embraced as a âwhistleblowerâ who has brought forward a tale of corruption and deception within the Department of Justice which allowed a long-time friend of President Trump to be sentenced to a term of imprisonment of 40 months â with the manipulation having been duplicitously inserted into the decision-making of a federal district judge appointed by President Barack Obama.
Before he made his way into federal service, Zelinsky was a âcontributorâ to the Huffington Post where he wrote glowing tributes to the policy changes adopted by Barack Obama following his victory in 2008. Aaron Zelinsky is a liberal Democrat.
The Mueller Report was delivered to DOJ on March 22, 2019 â only 57 days later. In the weeks before and after the delivery of the Mueller report to the Attorney General, some of the more prominent names with the SCO had already begun to depart for âgreener pasturesâ in private practice.