A federal judge said she would stick to the sentencing schedule for Roger Stone, a longtime friend of Trump. Stone is due to be sentenced on Thursday after he was found guilty of seven counts of lying to Congress, obstruction and witness tampering
WASHINGTON - Roger Stone, a longtime friend of President Donald Trump, lost his bid to delay his sentencing, a federal judge said on Tuesday.
A lawyer for Stone on Tuesday argued that Thursday's sentencing hearing should be postponed until after U.S. District Judge Amy Berman Jackson rules on a request he made for a new trial. The judge said the longtime Republican operative would not need to begin serving his sentence until she rules on his request for a new trial.
The intervention by Attorney General William Barr prompted all four career prosecutors who tried the case to withdraw, with one of them resigning from the department entirely.
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