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turbinetree

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Tue Jun 23, 2020, 07:43 PM Jun 2020

Former prosecutor to testify Barr intervened in case of Trump pal to please Trump



By Emily Singer -June 23, 2020 5:15 PM

Aaron Zelinsky resigned from the Justice Department over Attorney General William Barr's political interference on behalf of Trump.

A career federal prosecutor will testify on Wednesday that Attorney General William Barr explicitly intervened in the sentencing of Donald Trump associate Roger Stone on Trump's behalf — a bombshell allegation that comes amid investigations into political interference at the Department of Justice.

Stone was convicted in federal court in November 2019 on all seven counts of the indictment against him, including obstruction of justice, witness tampering, and lying to Congress.

Aaron Zelinsky, a former prosecutor on Stone's case, will tell the House Judiciary Committee in a hearing on Wednesday that Stone was "treated differently from any other defendant because of his relationship to the president."

Zelinsky resigned from the Stone case in November 2019 after Barr intervened to recommend a lighter sentence after prosecutors had sent their recommendation according to established guidelines.

https://americanindependent.com/aaron-zelinsky-testimony-roger-stone-case-william-barr-political-interference-donald-trump-russia-investigation-congress/
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Former prosecutor to testify Barr intervened in case of Trump pal to please Trump (Original Post) turbinetree Jun 2020 OP
Ahhh. Did the oinker get himself a cookie? snort Jun 2020 #1

snort

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1. Ahhh. Did the oinker get himself a cookie?
Tue Jun 23, 2020, 07:48 PM
Jun 2020

Pat him on the head and your fingers come away smelling like shit.

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