A Department of Justice watchdog investigation has found no evidence that politics played an improper role in a decision to propose a lighter prison sentence for Roger Stone, a close ally of former President Donald Trump.
Roger Stone walks on the convention floor during the Republican National Convention Wednesday, July 17, 2024, in Milwaukee. in 2020 when top Justice Department officials overruled them and lowered the amount of prison time it would seek for Stone. Stone was later sentenced to 40 months behind bars before
The inspector general found that then-interim U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia Timothy Shea initially sought advice from a top Justice Department official on what to do about Stone’s sentencing recommendation. Then, the day the sentencing recommendation was due, Shea met with then-Attorney General William Barr and the two discussed how a sentence below federal guidelines would be appropriate, according to the report.
When Barr realized the request was not what he and Shea had discussed, he told Justice Department officials it needed to be “fixed,” the report says. That happened before Trump blasted the requested
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