'It says that the president's whims and fancies are more important to the administration of justice than the views of career prosecutors,' Gene Rossi told Newsweek.
Attorney General William Barr's Department of Justice is facing scrutiny after it publicly rebuked its own prosecutors over the sentencing of Trump associate Roger Stone Tuesday.
"Recommending a below-guidelines sentence on a case that DOJ tried and won is highly unusual," former federal prosecutor Michael J. Stern told."Undercutting the trial prosecutors by ordering them to retract their sentencing memo is reprehensible. Donald Trump and Bill Barr acting corruptly to help out a buddy.... well, that's predictable."
"Stone's actions were not a one-off mistake in judgment. Nor were his false statements made in the heat of the moment. They were nowhere close to that," the prosecutors wrote in the original sentencing memorandum."Stone's conduct over the past two years shows the low regard in which he holds the House Intelligence Committee's investigation and this very criminal case.
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