Judge sentences Trump adviser Roger Stone to 40 months in prison by Isikoff
WASHINGTON — After excoriating Roger Stone for his lies and “belligerence,” a federal judge on Thursday ordered President Trump’s longtime political adviser to serve three years and four months in prison — a stiff sentence for most white-collar defendants but far less than the seven to nine years originally recommended by federal prosecutors.
The impact of that controversy on the Justice Department was readily apparent during the hearing when John Crabb Jr., the new assistant U.S. attorney placed in charge of the case, backtracked and advocated for enhanced sentencing guidelines for Stone that, only days earlier, the department had withdrawn.
In a virtually unprecedented series of events, that memo was quickly withdrawn by Barr’s office only hours after it had been filed. After the original prosecutors who filed it withdrew from the case Crabb was ordered to file a new sentencing memo that, while recommending Stone be incarcerated, did not endorse the proposed enhancement and offered no opinion as to how long he should be behind bars.
The dispute about the witness tampering charge was complicated by Credico, who during his trial testimony said he never actually believed that Stone would carry through on one of his threats — to take away Credico’s service dog, Bianca. The comedian then wrote a letter to Jackson urging her not to send Stone to prison at all, insisting that he never felt threatened by him, concluding that his menacing words were just “Roger being Roger” and that he was “all bark and no bite.
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