Roger Stone, a longtime showman, political strategist and friend of Donald Trump's whom a jury found guilty of lying to Congress and threatening a witness regarding his efforts for the President's 2016 campaign, will be sentenced Thursday in Washington.
The sentencing will be the culmination of an intense week that provoked a reckoning within the Justice Department. It's also the near-end of a case that's had several shocking moments that exposed Trump's interest in WikiLeaks during the campaign and, most recently, prompted the President to tweet his support for Stone.Stone has asked for a sentence of probation. But the Justice Department has advocated he serve prison time.
Previously, she sentenced former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort to prison for conspiracy and witness tampering crimes, and his deputy Gates to 45 days in prison for lying to investigators and conspiracy with Manafort.In many ways, Stone's case had come to define Mueller's investigation.During the campaign, Stone had sought to spread smears about Hillary Clinton and openly bragged of being in touch with WikiLeaks and its founder Julian Assange.
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