The Sentencing of Roger Stone
Bribe, Swindle or Steal
Alexandra Addison-Wrage of TRACE International
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🗓️ 18 September 2024
⏱️ 23 minutes
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Summary
In this episode from 2020, Randall Eliason, law professor and former Assistant U.S. Attorney provides an excellent account of the days leading up to the sentencing of political operative Roger Stone. The Department of Justice's unprecedented interference in--and reversal of--its prosecutorial team's recommendation led to the resignation from the case of all four prosecutors. Over 2000 former DOJ officials called on Attorney General Barr to resign in the wake of his interference in the case.
This episode was originally published on 4 March 2020.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome back to the podcast, bribe, swindle, or steel. I'm Alexandra Ragi. Today we're going to |
| 0:11.1 | spend a few minutes making sense of what happened with the sentencing of political operative |
| 0:15.5 | Roger Stone in the lead up to the sentencing, on the day, and in the aftermath. My guest is Randall Eliasson, |
| 0:22.4 | who spent 12 years as an assistant U.S. attorney in Washington, including chief of the public |
| 0:27.3 | corruption and government fraud section. He teaches a course on white-collar crime at George |
| 0:31.6 | Washington Law School and is a very active media commentator on NBC, NPR, CNN, and elsewhere. |
| 0:39.7 | Randall is also a contributing columnist for the Washington Post. Thank you so much for joining me. My pleasure. Thanks for having me. |
| 0:44.4 | We need to help people understand what just happened. Perhaps you could start with a bit of background |
| 0:50.4 | and timeline on the Roger Stone story. This all relates to the sentencing of |
| 0:55.6 | Roger Stone, a Republican political operative and sort of ally of President Trump's, |
| 1:00.3 | and it relates back to the Russian interference with the 2016 presidential election in the U.S. |
| 1:05.6 | Stone served as an intermediary during the round to the election, where it's trying to sort of |
| 1:10.2 | gather information for the Trump campaign about WikiLeaks and their plans to release the stolen |
| 1:16.7 | democratic emails that had been stolen by the Russians and then given to WikiLeaks. |
| 1:21.5 | And so Stone was trying to act as kind of a go-between between Julian Assange, who was holdup in |
| 1:26.0 | the embassy in London, and the Trump campaign passing on information about what was coming, what kind of emails did they have, things like that. |
| 1:33.3 | After Trump is elected, Congress starts investigating alleged interference by the Russians with the election, as the U.S. Intelligence Committee had concluded, took place. |
| 1:42.5 | And as part of that investigation, they call Roger Stone as a |
| 1:46.1 | witness. So he was ultimately indicted for basically lying to that investigation repeatedly and obstructing |
| 1:53.2 | justice, obstructing Congress's inquiry into that Republican committee at the time that was investigating. |
| 1:58.3 | He was charged with obstructing justice with several counts of lying to that committee and with threatening a witness. |
| 2:04.5 | There was another witness named Brandy Credico that he had been sort of dealing with during this |
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