Roger Stone Sentenced<br />to 40 Months in Prison On Feb. 20, President Donald Trump’s <br />longtime friend, Roger Stone, was sentenced<br />to three years and four months in prison. The penalty was decided by U.S. District<br />Judge Amy Berman Jackson, who said<br />Stone’s “pride in his own lies” was a “threat”<br />to the “foundations of our democracy.” Amy Berman Jackson, via<br />‘Washington Post’ He was also fined $20,000, given travel restrictions,<br />and ordered to serve two years of supervised release and<br />to continue to comply with the gag order in place. Trump weighed in on the sentencing,<br />criticizing the “fairness” of Stone’s trial. Donald Trump, via Twitter Stone was initially convicted of seven counts<br />of obstruction, witness tampering and making<br />false statements to Congress in November 2019. The charges were a result of Special Counsel<br />Robert Mueller’s investigation into whether Russia<br />interfered in the 2016 presidential election.
