NEW: Former Stone prosecutor Aaron Zelinsky: “What I saw was that Roger Stone was being treated differently from every other defendant...And what I heard, repeatedly, was that this leniency was happening because of Stone’s relationship to the president.'
regarding what they described as political meddling in department affairs under President Donald Trump and Attorney General William Barr.of Trump-ally Roger Stone after Barr intervened in the sentencing process, and John Elias, a former acting chief of staff in the antitrust division under Assistant Attorney General Makan Delrahim, both testified that they felt department leadership had wrongfully intervened in typically-sensitive law enforcement matters purely to benefit Trump's interests.
Michael B. Mukasey, Former Attorney General, U.S. Department of Justice, Donald Ayer, Adjunct Professor Georgetown University Law Center and Former Deputy Attorney and John W. Elias, Trial Attorney, Antitrust Division, U.S. Department of Justice, swear in at the U.S. House Judiciary Committee meeting in Washington, June 24, 2020.
"We are immensely proud of what we do and we are proud to serve in the Department of Justice, and we are proud that we prosecute without fear or favor," Zelinsky said."To describe an abdication of responsibility like this and this sort of contradiction of all the reasons we have taken these jobs is deeply painful to me."
Kupec additionally noted that Zelinsky has not detailed any conversations he had directly with Barr or Shea.
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