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Trump Confidant, Area Native Roger Stone Sentenced For Witness Tampering, Lying To Congress
Roger Stone, a Fairfield County native who graduated from high school in Northern Westchester and has been a longtime adviser and confidant of President Donald Trump, was sentenced to prison for lying to lawmakers investigating Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election and other charges. The 67-year-old Stone was indicted in January 2019 as part of special counsel Robert Mueller’s probe into whether Russia colluded with the Trump's presidential campaign. Stone was sentenced to 40 months (three years, four months) in prison by Judge Amy Berman Jackson on Thursday, Feb.…
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Prosecutors Seek Harsh Sentence For Trump Confidant, Area Native Roger Stone
Ten days away from his scheduled sentencing, prosecutors are asking a federal judge to give a harsh prison sentence to longtime adviser and confidant of President Donald Trump, Roger Stone. Stone, a Fairfield County native who graduated from high school in Northern Westchester, was found guilty of lying to lawmakers who were investigating Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election and other charges. He's due to be sentenced on Thursday, Feb. 20. In asking for a seven- to nine-year sentence for the 67-year-old Stone, prosecutors wrote on Monday, Feb. 10: "Roger S…
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Area Native Roger Stone Found Guilty Of Witness Tampering, Lying To Congress
Roger Stone, a Fairfield County native who graduated from high school in Northern Westchester and has been a longtime adviser and confidant of President Donald Trump, was found guilty of lying to lawmakers investigating Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election and other charges. The 67-year-old Stone was indicted in January 2019 as part of special counsel Robert Mueller’s probe into whether Russia colluded with the Trump's presidential campaign. A jury of nine women and three men deliberated starting on Thursday, Nov. 14 before announcing on late Friday morning, Nov. 15 t…
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Barr Assigns US Attorney In Connecticut To Review Origins Of Russia Inquiry
United States Attorney General William Barr has appointed John Durham, the U.S. Attorney for the District of Connecticut, to review the origins of the Russia investigation into interference in the 2016 presidential election and the FBI’s surveillance activities. Durham has been assigned to conduct the inquiry into allegations of misconduct and improper surveillance of President Donald Trump’s campaign during the 2016 election. The concerns were first raised in congressional testimony following the release of Robert Mueller’s report on the Russia probe. "I am not saying that improper survei…
Politics
Westchester HS Grad, Longtime Trump Adviser Roger Stone Arrested In Russia Investigation
Roger Stone, an area native and former adviser and longtime confidant of President Donald Trump, was arrested in Florida early Friday morning, Jan. 25 on a seven-count indictment of witness tampering, obstruction, giving false statements and other crimes. The charges against Stone, who was born in Norwalk and grew up in Northern Westchester, were unsealed in special counsel Robert Mueller's investigation of Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election. The grand jury indictment details allegations that the 66-year-old Stone was an intermediary between…
Politics
Hillary Clinton 'Lock Her Up' Chant Doesn't Fit For Me, Ivanka Trump Says Amid Email Problems
Ivanka Trump is defending her use of a private email account when she was moving into an adviser's position in her father's administration. Trump's elder daughter says it can't be compared to the election year uproar over former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton's private email server and that "Lock her up!" doesn't apply to her. "All of my emails are stored and preserved. There were no deletions," Ivanka Trump told ABC News in an interview broadcast on Wednesday, Nov. 28. The Washington Post reported earlier this month that Ivanka Trump sent hundreds of emails about government busin…
Politics
Trump Family's Biggest Legal Threat From
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Prosecutors, Not Mueller, Experts Say
Prosecutors from the Southern District of New York are set to take the Trump organization to task for various offenses, according to legal experts and multiple reports. In the past week, the Office of the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York (SDNY) has accepted a guilty plea from President Donald Trump's former longtime personal attorney, Michael Cohen, and offered an immunity deal to Allen Weisselberg, chief financial officer of The Trump Organization. According to Bloomberg, Weisselberg, “will likely be required to provide information on all criminal activity he kn…
Politics
Trust In News Media Rising, Especially Confidence In Local News, Survey Says
It's been a quite a newsy week. And there's good news about those who cover and report "real news." Poynter Institute reports here that “after decades of declining trust in the press, coupled with relentless rhetorical attacks on the media by President Trump,” a new survey shows that “trust in media is up since last year, and the great majority of Americans trust their local news sources.” The full study by a trio of political and public policy scholars can be found online by clicking here: Titled "All Media Trust Is Local?" According to the Poynter Media Trust Survey, …
Politics
Cuomo Popularity Nosedives In New Poll
After a bounce in January, Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s favorability, job performance and re-election ratings all fell by double digits this month, according to a new Siena College poll of New York State registered voters. Cuomo’s favorability rating is 53-40 percent, down from 62-30 percent last month, and his job performance rating is negative 45-53 percent, down from positive 50-48 percent, according to this poll. Meanwhile, the Sienna poll fund that the public overwhelming trusts the Supreme Court and the FBI. Special counsel Robert Mueller is strongly trusted by Democrats and independents an…
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