Jury selection begins Tuesday in the trial of longtime Trump confidant Roger Stone, who is accused of lying to Congress and pressuring another person to do the same thing.
on social media until after the trial, expanding on an earlier gag order that said he could not discuss the case online or in the news media.
"I am wrestling with behavior that has more to do with middle school that a court of law," she told him at a court hearing. Stone reportedly claimed in spring of 2016 — and later denied — that he was in touch directly with Assange. And it appeared that Mueller's investigators might have considered him to be a link connecting the Trump campaign with Russian meddling. But no such charges were ever brought.
For more than four decades, Stone has been a political consultant, mostly for Republican candidates, known for aggressively pursuing and using opposition research. He once co-owned a lobbying firm with Paul Manafort, the former Trump campaign chairman who is serving a seven-and-a-half-year prison sentence for financial crimes stemming from his lobbying work on behalf of the Ukrainian government., Stone's prosecution was taken over by the U.S. attorney's office in Washington.
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