US_ Watchdog: No Evidence of Influence on Stone Sentence

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Watchdog: No Evidence of Influence on Stone Sentence

By Theodore Bunker | Wednesday, 24 July 2024 02:17 PM EDT


A watchdog group on Wednesday released a report announcing a four-year investigation into the Justice Department found "no evidence" that the Trump administration improperly pressured prosecutors to reduce their sentencing recommendations for Roger Stone, a former consultant to former President Donald Trump.

Stone was convicted in 2019 of witness tampering, obstructing an official proceeding, and five counts of making false statements to federal investigators in connection to former special counsel Robert Mueller's investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election.

Although federal prosecutors first recommended in 2020 that Stone serve seven to nine years in prison, leading officials at the Justice Department, which was under the leadership of former Attorney General William Barr at the time, later made a second filing recommending a far shorter sentence, leading the four prosecutors who tried Stone to resign.

The Justice Department's Office of Inspector General initiated an investigation in 2020. It concluded it four years later having found "no evidence" that department leaders violated department policy or committed misconduct in their recommendations for Stone's sentencing. However, it does note that the department took an "extraordinary step" in issuing a second sentencing recommendation.

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