![]() ![]() ![]() The charges stem from conversations he had during the campaign about WikiLeaks, the anti-secrecy group that released material stolen from Democratic groups, including Hillary Clinton’s campaign. Stone has pleaded not guilty to charges he lied to Congress, engaged in witness tampering and obstructed a congressional investigation into possible co-ordination between Russia and Donald Trump’s 2016 presidential campaign. “It does not matter when the defendant may have first formulated the opinions expressed, or when he first put them into words: he may no longer share his views on these particular subjects with the world,” Jackson wrote in a new order on Tuesday. WASHINGTON - A federal judge issued a broad gag order forbidding Roger Stone to discuss his criminal case with anyone and gave him a stinging reprimand. The same week, Berman tightened the gag order, a publisher began selling copies of Stone’s revised book from two years ago with a new introduction that criticized the Mueller investigation. Days after a federal judge gagged Roger Stone from talking about the special counsel’s Russia investigation around U.S. President Donald Trumps former adviser Roger Stone apologized on Monday after posting on Instagram a photo of the judge overseeing his trial for allegedly making false statements to Congress, obstruction and witness tampering. In February 2019, Jackson imposed a gag order on Stone after Stone posted a picture of Jackson next to a gun’s crosshairs on. “How hard was it to come up with a photo that didn’t have a crosshairs in the corner?” she quipped at one point. The case against Stone tested Jacksons patience and restraint. “Roger Stone fully understands the power of words and the power of symbols and there’s nothing ambiguous about crosshairs,” the judge said. ![]()
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