He could be looking at like 50 years in prison, it kind of looks like the end of the world for somebody like roger stone, the end of his free life, right . But the statutory maximum sentence, the sentence he might theoretically get on paper is nowhere near what hes actually likely to get. The guidelines, for example, suggest a sentence much shorter than the statutory maximum, also its his first offense. Its sort of a whitecollar offense, although im never quite sure what the dividing line is there. In any case, nobody really thinks hes going to get decades in prison. But it is seven felony counts including witness tampering which is a serious one. Theres an interesting thing that happened right at the end of the day in court on friday right after the jury read out their verdict about roger stone in what was something of a surprise. The prosecutors in the stone case asked as soon as the judge was as soon as the verdict was read, they asked the judge to remand roger stone in custody, to
Theoretically get on paper is nowhere near what hes actually likely to get. The guidelines, for example, suggest a sentence much shorter than the statutory maximum, also its his first offense. Its sort of a whitecollar offense, although im never really quite sure what the dividing line is there. In any case, nobody really thinks hes going to get decades in prison. But it is seven felony counts including witness tampering which is a serious one. Theres an interesting thing that happened right at the end of the day in court on friday right after the jury read out their verdict about roger stone in what was something of a surprise. The prosecutors in the stone case asked as soon as the judge was as soon as the verdict was read, they asked the judge to remand roger stone in custody, to put him in jail that day right then rather than allow him to go home again. Heres how it went in court. The judge, does the government have a position with respect to the defendants release pending the sente
middle of this whole thing that they weren t even going to get any phone calls with the trump white house moving forward ls in they coughed up those investigations that were being demanded of them. that s new this weekend from greg miller, greg joffe and paul sony at the washington post. and then there is the associated press. as i mentioned earlier in the show, the associated press had that initial just absolute bombshell scoop about rick perry going to the inauguration of the ukrainian president. while he s there on the sideline of the inauguration handing the new president a piece of paper with his donors names on it. and then magically one of those donors gets a jig ant rick from the ukrainian government one week later. especially while we are working so hard on stopping corruption in ukraine. but i got tell you that same reporting team at the associated press that broke that incredible story about rick perry which has now been borne out by sworn testimony, that same repor
white house moving forward unless they coughed up those investigations that were being demand of them. demanded of them. greg miller, greg joffe and paul sony at the washington post. and then there is the associated press. as i mentioned earlier in the show, the associated press had that initial just absolute bombshell scoop about rick perry going to the inauguration of the ukrainian president. while he s there on the sideline of the inauguration handing the new president a piece of paper with his donors names on it. and then magically one of those donors get a gigantic contract from the ukrainian government one week later, right? odd that, especially while we re working so hard on stopping corruption in ukraine. but i got tell you that same reporting team at the associated press that broke that incredible story about rick perry which has now been borne out by sworn testimony, that same reporting team was also how we learned for the first time that david holmes, this important