Aaron Zelinsky, a former prosecutor in the Roger Stone case, said Justice Department leadership wanted prosecutors to "cut Stone a break."
WASHINGTON – The Justice Department gave Roger Stone"unprecedentedly favorable treatment" because he is an ally of President Donald Trump, a former prosecutor on the case is expected to tell Congress Wednesday.
The political meddling was unprecedented, according to Zelensky, and one that prompted him to resign from the case. Roger Stone case: Federal judges' association calls emergency meeting after DOJ intervenes in case of Trump ally Roger Stone Zelinsky is set to testify Wednesday before the committee, which is investigating allegations of political interference within the Justice Department. Zelinsky's attorney, Robert Litt, said the prosecutor"will truthfully describe what happened with the Stone sentencing."
"The Attorney General stated during his confirmation hearing that it his job to ensure that the administration of justice and the enforcement of the law is above and away from politics," the department said. Zelinsky and three other prosecutors, Jonathan Kravis, Adam Jed and Michael Marando, withdrew from Stone's case in February after the Justice Department overruled them to recommend a lighter sentence for the longtime GOP operative. The move was met with backlash and accusations that Barr has turned the Justice Department into a political annex of the president.
But Zelinsky said he was explicitly told by a supervisor that the push for a lighter sentence was political and had nothing to do with the crimes Stone had committed. He and the other prosecutors"were instructed" to go along because the case was"not a hill worth dying on" and they could lose their jobs, Zelinsky said.
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