Roger Stone, a former adviser to U.S. President Donald Trump, leaves the Prettyman United States Courthouse after a hearing February 1, 2019 in Washington, DC. Mark Wilson | Getty Images A top federal prosecutor said in a new legal filing Tuesday that Republican operative Roger Stone deserves to be sentenced to “far less” time in […]
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Trump ally Roger Stone should go to prison for up to 9 years, prosecutors say
President Donald Trump early Tuesday blasted federal prosecutors for seeking a prison term of between seven and nine years for his longtime ally Roger Stone, a Republican political operative convicted of lying to Congress in the Russian election meddling probe. Prosecutors on Monday had called for that long prison term by citing the seriousness of […]
Chris Collins sentenced to 26 months for insider trading tip
A disgraced and extremely emotional former New York congressman Chris Collins was sentenced Friday to 26 months in jail for an unlawful inventory tip that he gave his son from the White House garden a couple of biopharmaceutical firm’s failed drug trial. The sentence from Judge Vernon Broderick in U.S. District Court in […]