The execution of the sentence will be delayed until the judge decides whether Stone’s request for a new trial after the jury forewoman in his case, a former Democratic political candidate, outed herself as a leftist who had posted inflammatory anti-Trump content on social media.
Four career DOJ prosecutors recommended that Stone be sentenced to 7 to 9 years in prison. When Trump tweeted that the sentencing recommendation was “very horrible and unfair”, Democrats responded by accusing the president of wielded undue influence over the DOJ.
Flynn’s attorney, Powell, says the prosecutor committed subornation of perjury, which is the crime of persuading a person to lie under oath. She says the Mueller investigation team prosecuted Flynn to support obstruction charges against President Trump.
Critics allege that Weissmann intimidated witnesses by threatening indictments, created crimes that do not exist, and withheld evidence that could have aided the accused.
here is concern that the investigation may extend past the statute of limitations and, thereby, prevent prosecutions, regardless of the findings. Judge Napolitano says the statute for most federal crimes is five years. Much of that has already passed.
Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein made the decision to turn over the case against Michael Cohen, Trump’s former attorney, to attorneys in the Southern District of New York, creating an investigation separate from the Mueller probe.
Dershowitz says Democrats are out to “get Trump.’ However, when Republicans dominate the investigations, they are known to use the same tactic against Democrats. This is a bi-partisan corruption of our judicial system that must be terminated if America is to survive as a free and just nation.
Harvard law professor Alan Dershowitz says that Rod Rosenstein can be replaced by bringing an ethics charge against him with the bars that he is a member, or a lawsuit may also be used to challenge him.
More evidence is surfacing in the Mueller investigation of Donald Trump showing that the justification for opening the investigation was based on false information from an FBI ‘mole’ who was placed into Trump’s campaign organization during the Obama administration.