Roger Stone, Donald Trump’s longtime adviser and confidant, was sentenced Thursday to over three years in prison
Roger Stone was sentenced Thursday to just more than three years in prison, a decision that raises immediate questions about whether President Donald Trump will pardon his longtime political confidant for what the president has decried as a miscarriage of justice.
Jackson’s sentence for Stone — among the most severe to-date in a case originating from special counsel Robert Mueller — came a week after his potential punishment triggered a furor at the Justice Department. During his brief statement to the court, the prosecutor appeared to go out of his way to push back against Trump’s attacks. Crabb said the prosecutors who filed the original recommendation that Stone go to prison for between seven and nine years did not defy their superiors or act inappropriately.
Jackson first alluded to the recent dramatic events in the case just minutes into the hearing. She touched on Barr’s unusual intervention to reverse the initial sentencing recommendation, which led the four trial prosecutors to withdraw from the case and one of them to quit the department altogether.
“It’s not just a question of good faith, but whether it was fully consistent with current DOJ policy,” she said. “The current policy of this Department of Justice is to charge and prosecute the most serious offense available in order to get the highest guideline level.” "This is intolerable to the administration of justice and the courts should not sit idly by, shrug its shoulders and just say it's 'Roger being Roger,’” Jackson said.
Despite Stone’s typical passion for or the spotlight, Ginsberg said the high-profile trial and its attendant publicity had taken a toll on the defendant and his family.But Jackson in her closing statement before reading her sentence unloaded on Stone’s defense team for acting so dismissively about the charges during the November trial.Stone won’t have to start serving his sentence right away.
“It's not a question of if," a former senior administration official who remains in close touch with the president and senior aides said when asked about the prospect of a Stone pardon. "It's when."
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