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applegrove

(118,486 posts)
Tue Jun 23, 2020, 04:03 PM Jun 2020

Prosecutor Says Roger Stone Sentencing Was Politicized

Prosecutor Says Roger Stone Sentencing Was Politicized

June 23, 2020 at 3:09 pm EDT By Taegan Goddard 61 Comments

https://politicalwire.com/2020/06/23/ex-roger-stone-prosecutor-says-politics-intervened/

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“Career prosecutor Aaron Zelinsky will tell the House Judiciary Committee on Wednesday that Justice Department leadership intervened in the sentencing of former Trump adviser Roger Stone for political purposes,” Axios reports.

From Zelinksy’s opening statement: “What I heard — repeatedly — was that Roger Stone was being treated differently from any other defendant because of his relationship to the president.”

Zelinsky will also say that a supervisor working on the case told him there were “political reasons” to shorten prosecutors’ initial sentencing guidelines and that the supervisor agreed that doing so “was unethical and wrong.”

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Prosecutor Says Roger Stone Sentencing Was Politicized (Original Post) applegrove Jun 2020 OP
Who would'a thunk............... MyOwnPeace Jun 2020 #1
Duh! malaise Jun 2020 #2

MyOwnPeace

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1. Who would'a thunk...............
Tue Jun 23, 2020, 05:39 PM
Jun 2020

Really? There was something "funny" regarding Roger Stone and how he was being treated?

What's truly sad (and should somehow be a crime) is how the RepubliCons can sit back and allow all of this BS to continue!

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