Roger Stone Gets Over Three Years in Jail for Trump Cover-Up
- Republican operative was convicted of lying to Congress
- Trump tweets hint at possible pardon for a longtime ally
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Roger Stone, the longtime Republican operative and Donald Trump associate, was sentenced to three years and four months in prison for lying to Congress and tampering with a witness to protect the president.
The sentence caps a week of political turmoil that followed Trump’s Feb. 11 criticism of the original recommendation that his friend receive a prison term of as many as nine years. The four prosecutors in the case all stepped down after the Justice Department said it was withdrawing their proposal and submitting a new, more lenient one. The sentence is in line with the lower, three-to-four year range recommended in a revised filing.