December 20, 2019
A D.C. federal judge handed longtime Trump confidant Roger Stone a partial win on Friday, postponing his Feb. 6 sentencing for two weeks, a day after attorneys for the self-described political "dirty trickster" asked for a monthlong delay to prepare financial information and other records for a pre-sentence report.
November 25, 2019
Former Trump campaign adviser Roger Stone can't escape guilty verdicts on the seven felony charges against him because he made no argument that the evidence used to convict him was lacking in any way, a D.C. federal judge explained Monday.
November 18, 2019
More than six months after ending his probe into Russia interference in the 2016 U.S. presidential election, former special counsel Robert Mueller scored a significant victory Friday when a jury found longtime Trump associate Roger Stone guilty on all seven charges. Here, Law360 explores three takeaways from the trial and how it went south for the longtime Republican operative.
November 15, 2019
A D.C. federal jury found former Trump campaign adviser Roger Stone guilty Friday of all seven felony charges of lying to Congress about his connections with WikiLeaks, witness tampering and obstructing a congressional committee's probe into Russian interference in the 2016 U.S. presidential election.
November 14, 2019
A D.C. federal jury deciding the fate of former Trump campaign adviser Roger Stone ended its first day of deliberations Thursday with two written questions, including one appearing to indicate that jurors are wrestling over whether the longtime Republican operative lied that a liberal talk show host was his intermediary with WikiLeaks.
November 13, 2019
A 12-member jury will begin deliberations Thursday in former Trump campaign adviser Roger Stone's criminal trial after prosecutors made their final pitch Wednesday afternoon.
November 12, 2019
Former Trump campaign honcho Rick Gates testified Tuesday that the organization was thrilled to learn from Roger Stone about WikiLeaks' plan to dump stolen emails to damage Democratic opponent Hillary Clinton, bolstering prosecutors' case that Stone lied to Congress about not speaking to anyone in the campaign about the controversial anti-secrecy group.
November 08, 2019
A star witness in Roger Stone's criminal trial lashed out at an attorney for the former Trump campaign adviser over the assertion that he misled Stone into believing he had personal connections with WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, whose group released emails stolen from the Democratic National Committee's computer system.
November 07, 2019
Federal prosecutors doubled down Thursday on their characterization of Roger Stone as a liar, pointing to a stream of emails and text messages between the former Trump adviser, top campaign aides and associates of Stone about his anticipation of the release of more hacked emails ahead of the 2016 presidential election to damage Hillary Clinton's candidacy.
November 06, 2019
A federal prosecutor came out swinging Wednesday during opening arguments in the criminal trial of former Trump adviser Roger Stone, asserting that the self-described political "dirty trickster" willfully and repeatedly lied to Congress "under oath to cover up his tracks" because "the truth looked bad for Donald Trump."