Judge Warns Roger Stone About Treating Proceedings Like Book Tour
- Ex-Trump adviser makes first appearance before trial judge
- Stone charged with lying to Congress and witness tampering
Roger Stone outside court in Washington, D.C. on Feb. 1, 2019.
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Roger Stone, the indicted longtime adviser of President Donald Trump, was warned by a judge against treating his pretrial proceedings like a “book tour.”
U.S. District Judge Amy Berman Jackson said she’s considering issuing an order barring Stone’s lawyers and prosecutors from discussing the case publicly and gave them until the end of next week to file a response to her proposal. Jackson said the parties would still be free to talk about anything including foreign relations "or Tom Brady," but not this case.