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Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin

(107,111 posts)
Tue Jun 23, 2020, 07:55 PM Jun 2020

Prosecutor says he was pressured to cut Roger Stone 'a break' because of his ties to Trump

Source: Politico

A prosecutor who withdrew from the Roger Stone case after Justice Department leaders intervened to recommend a lighter sentence intends to testify before Congress that he and his colleagues were repeatedly pressured to cut Stone "a break," and were told that it was because of his relationship with President Donald Trump.

"What I heard – repeatedly – was that Roger Stone was being treated differently from any other defendant because of his relationship to the President," Aaron Zelinsky, one of four prosecutors who quit the case, plans to tell the House Judiciary Committee Wednesday, according to his prepared testimony. "I was also told that the acting U.S. Attorney was giving Stone such unprecedentedly favorable treatment because he was 'afraid of the President.'"

Zelinsky will appear alongside antitrust prosecutor John Elias, who plans to testify that Attorney General William Barr personally ordered the Justice Department's Antitrust Division to launch politically motivated reviews of 10 cannabis mergers.

Zelinsky's testimony is a stunning — and stunningly rare — public rebuke of Justice Department leadership by a sitting official. And it comes as Barr is facing intensifying scrutiny over actions that Justice Department veterans and Democrats have described as dangerous breaches of the Justice Department's independence from politics. The Justice Department did not respond to an immediate request for comment.

Read more: https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/prosecutor-says-he-was-pressured-to-cut-roger-stone-a-break-because-of-his-ties-to-trump/ar-BB15SUkr?li=BBnb7Kz&ocid=DELLDHP

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Prosecutor says he was pressured to cut Roger Stone 'a break' because of his ties to Trump (Original Post) Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Jun 2020 OP
Wow, just wow. DOJ is criminal AF. nt iluvtennis Jun 2020 #1
Very criminal ck4829 Jun 2020 #3
Kick ck4829 Jun 2020 #2
Just Us Kid Berwyn Jun 2020 #4
Kick dalton99a Jun 2020 #5
K and R ....Thank You for posting.. Stuart G Jun 2020 #6

Kid Berwyn

(14,651 posts)
4. Just Us
Thu Jun 25, 2020, 11:29 PM
Jun 2020

Barr is Roy Cohn Roger Stone Tricky Dick CIA Wall Street BFEE. And he just made a fatal mistake for the “Money Trumps Peace” crowd. Hurray!

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