Posted on 02/11/2020 1:14:05 PM PST by Oldeconomybuyer
The lead prosecutor in Roger Stone's criminal case abruptly resigned from the case on Tuesday after the Justice Department said it planned to reduce the recommended sentence for the longtime Trump associate.
The Justice Department was pulling back on its request to sentence Stone to seven to nine years in prison after President Donald Trump blasted the sentencing proposal as "a miscarriage of justice."
“The department finds the recommendation extreme and excessive and will clarify its position later today," a senior department official confirmed to NBC News.
After the reports of the imminent softer sentencing recommendation, lead prosecutor Aaron Zelinsky withdrew as a prosecutor in the case. A footnote in his court filing noted that "the undersigned attorney has resigned effective immediately."
Zelinsky, who was a part of former special counsel Robert Mueller's team investigating Russian election interference, is not resigning from the Justice Department but is leaving the Washington, D.C. U.S. Attorney’s Office and returning to his old job with the U.S. Attorney in Maryland.
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Day jest got dere weetle feelin’s hurt. Waaaa...waaaa (sniff, sniff)
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Great gig, if you can get it. Only in (re:) govt can illegality seemingly ‘disappear’ by merely resigning (w/ all taxpayer bennies still valid).
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3815622/posts
Prosecutors in charge of the federal case against Roger Stone may have lied to the Department of Justice about their lengthy prison sentence recommendation for Stone, according to a new report.
Fox News reported earlier today that DOJ was blindsided by the formal recommendation from operatives tapped by former Special Counsel Robert Mueller that Stone be sentenced to up to nine years in prison. A source told Fox that the sentence recommendation was “extreme, excessive, and grossly disproportionate” to Stone’s crimes.
“The Department was shocked to see the sentencing recommendation in the filing in the Stone case last night,” the DOJ official reportedly told Fox. “The sentencing recommendation was not what had been briefed to the Department.”
The report from Fox News suggested that DOJ was in the process of rescinding the rogue prosecutors’ recommendation. Sources told The Federalist that Timothy Shea, who was recently appointed to take over as the top federal prosecutor in D.C. earlier this month, was bullied into agreeing to the sentence recommendation by Adam Jed and Aaron Zelinsky, who were originally tapped by Mueller to investigate whether Donald Trump treasonously colluded with the Russian government to steal the 2016 election from Hillary Clinton. A full investigative report released by Mueller last year revealed that the Mueller investigation found zero evidence for any of the claims of collusion between Trump and the Russians. According to a separate report on serial abuses committed by the Department of Justice (DOJ) during its investigation of Trump, the DOJ inspector general found that the government knew long before Mueller was even appointed that there was no evidence of any collusion.
Shea’s acquiescence to the demand by the disgruntled former Mueller operatives raised questions about whether Shea was operationally in control of the D.C. prosecutor’s office, or whether he had effectively outsourced major decisions in high-profile cases to Mueller’s former deputies.
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the long sentences these lawyer were asking for was bait to get Trump to react and maybe pardon and then schumer would yell “Trump is a king dictating justice from his chair.”
Wish President would have stayed out of it. He could always pardon Stone. Bill Clinton pardoned lot of bad people. Marc Rich being on of them. This just opened another reason for the Dems to go after President. They will go after Barr I assume as well.
I think those penalties were absurd.
These attorneys may wind up in trouble over this.
The Flynn judge has postponed his sentencing indefinitely.
This judge may be able to figure it out too, after this.
Will he be boarding a plane to Costa Rica?
So many persecutors resigning. What a crisis./s
But Democrats are outraged!
Hillary skates free after destroying subpoenaed E-mails but Stone gets 9 years for telling a buddy he was going to kidnap his dog if he didnt cooperate.....in an investigation that was initiated under false pretenses (FISA abuse)
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