The House Judiciary Committee is launching a wide-ranging probe of Attorney General William Barr and the Justice Department, demanding briefings, documents and interviews with 15 officials as it tries to determine whether there has been improper political interference in federal law enforcement. Committee Chairman Jerrold Nadler, D-N.Y., on Friday sent Barr a letter listing a series of matters that the…

A federal judge has brought in nearly all members of the jury that convicted Trump ally Roger Stone on charges related to the Russia investigation in order to answer questions on allegations of juror misconduct

President Donald Trump’s associate Roger Stone was sentenced Thursday to more than 3 years in prison on obstruction and perjury charges by a judge who has come under attack by the president as he assails the case against Stone.  Judge Amy Berman Jackson moved forward with Stone’s sentencing on seven felonies after Attorney General Bill Barr overruled his own...

A federal judge denied former Donald Trump adviser Roger Stone’s request for her recusal from a potential new trial, saying in an order Sunday that there was no factual or legal basis to Stone’s claims, NBC News reports.

Roger Stone, a staunch ally of President Donald Trump, has been sentenced to more than three years in prison on his convictions for witness tampering and lying to Congress

Roger Stone, an ally and former advisor to President Donald Trump, was sentenced on Thursday to 40 months in prison and a $20,000 fine after being convicted of witness tampering and lying to congress. 

Roger Stone, the associate of President Donald Trump convicted of witness tampering and lying to Congress, is due to face sentencing on Thursday even as he continues to argue for a new trial. The case received renewed attention when federal prosecutors quit after Attorney General William Barr overruled their initial sentencing recommendation after it was filed. The move came after...

The judge presiding over the case of President Donald Trump’s longtime ally Roger Stone said his sentencing hearing will move forward as planned on Thursday, but indicated she will defer the execution of the sentence until the court rules on the defense’s request for a new trial.

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi says the Department of Justice getting involved in the sentencing in the Roger Stone case is “an abuse of power.”

The former U.S. attorney whose office oversaw the Roger Stone prosecution resigned from the Trump administration Wednesday, two days after President Donald Trump abruptly withdrew her nomination for a top job at the Treasury Department, NBC News reported. Jessie Liu had headed the U.S. attorney’s office in Washington, D.C., which oversaw several cases that originated with former special counsel Robert Mueller’s...

Seth Meyers takes a closer look at Bernie Sanders’ New Hampshire primary win and Donald Trump bullying the Justice Department.

President Donald Trump on Wednesday declined to say whether he was considering a pardon for his longtime confidant Roger Stone, leaving open the possibility for such action just a day after the Department of Justice announced it would reduce Stone’s recommended sentencing.

Democratic Congressional leaders call for probe of Attorney General William Barr’s actions after prosecutors handling Roger Stone case withdraw in protest after new sentencing recommendations are issued by the Department of Justice…hours after criticism from President Trump.

Congressional Democrats on Wednesday called for an emergency hearing and investigation into the Department of Justice’s decision to reduce the recommended sentence for longtime Donald Trump confidant Roger Stone. Top Democrats are pushing for the GOP-led Senate Judiciary Committee to hold a hearing to review the decision that led to the sudden resignation of all of the four prosecutors Tuesday...

Federal prosecutors are asking a judge to sentence President Donald Trump’s confidant Roger Stone to serve between seven and nine years in prison after his conviction on witness tampering and obstruction charges

The U.S. attorney who had presided over an inconclusive criminal investigation into former acting FBI director Andrew McCabe was abruptly removed from that job last month in one of several recent moves by Attorney General William Barr to take control of legal matters of personal interest to President Donald Trump, according to multiple people familiar with the matter.

He was proud of his reputation as a practitioner of political dirty tricks and frequently boasted about the extent of his contacts and the depth of his insider information. Now Roger Stone, a longtime friend and ally of President Donald Trump, faces a prison sentence for a collection of crimes that essentially amounts to exaggerating how much he knew, then...

Roger Stone has been found guilty on counts of lying to Congress, witness tampering and others.

Jury deliberations will extend into a second day in the trial of Roger Stone, a veteran Republican political operative charged with lying to Congress and other charges stemming from the special counsel’s Russia investigation. Jurors on Thursday concluded about 6 hours of deliberations without reaching a verdict. Stone, a longtime confidant of President Donald Trump, was indicted in January as...

Republican political operative Roger Stone undermined the effectiveness of the congressional investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 election by repeatedly and deliberately lying under oath to help Donald Trump’s presidential campaign avoid embarrassment, prosecutors told jurors in closing arguments at his trial Wednesday. Defense attorneys countered that Stone had done nothing deliberately illegal and claimed the government’s case was...