UPDATE: All four Roger Stone prosecutors resign from case after DOJ backpedals on sentencing recommendation
The entire team prosecuting Roger Stone abruptly resigned from the criminal case on Tuesday after the Justice Department said it planned to reduce the recommended sentence for Stone, a longtime Trump associate.
"The defendant committed serious offenses and deserves a sentence of incarceration," but based"on the facts known to the government, a sentence of between 87 to 108 months’ imprisonment, however, could be considered excessive and unwarranted under the circumstances. Ultimately, the government defers to the Court as to what specific sentence is appropriate under the facts and circumstances of this case," the filing said.
Trump in a tweet earlier in the day called the department's initial sentencing proposal"disgraceful!" "I thought it was an insult to our country and it shouldn't happen," Trump said."These are the same Mueller people who put everybody through hell and I think it's a disgrace." Rep. Adam Schiff, the California Democrat who was the lead prosecutor in Trump's impeachment trial, said that"if If reports are correct, the Department of Justice and Attorney General Bill Barr are poised to overrule career prosecutors who made a sentencing recommendation yesterday, following a midnight tweet from the President attacking the proposed length of sentence."
Federal prosecutors initially sought seven to nine years in prison for Stone in a sentencing memorandum they filed Monday in Washington, D.C. Prosecutors said the recommendation was in line with the sentencing guideline outlined by federal law.
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