Today, Mueller due to file sentencing memo in DC Manafort case. And also, in the Stone case,
Mueller has a deadline today for filing a response to Stone's recent request. Stone has asked for a change to a different judge (the one he's been assigned to is Amy Berman Jackson, also Manafort's judge.)
https://www.cnn.com/2019/02/15/politics/paul-manafort-sentencing-hearing/index.html
Prosecutors on special counsel Robert Mueller's team intend to file a sentencing recommendation in the Paul Manafort case Friday.
The prosecutors asked a federal judge in Virginia to schedule a second sentencing hearing "as soon as practicable" for Trump's former 2016 campaign chair.
They plan to file a sentencing submission Friday in this case, where Manafort was convicted in August by a jury for financial crimes.
"Because the DC Court has determined that Manafort intentionally lied to the government, and the breach of the agreement was conceded by the defendant and found by the DC Court, the government submits there are no outstanding issues warranting delay in proceeding to sentencing before this Court," prosecutors wrote.
https://www.vox.com/2019/2/15/18223791/mueller-roger-stone-russian-hackers-related-case
Roger Stone has asked for his case to be transferred to a different federal judge — and what seems like a minor procedural move could have intriguing implications for special counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation as a whole.
Currently, Stone’s indictment for obstruction, false statements, and witness tampering is before Judge Amy Berman Jackson in the District of Columbia. But the case wasn’t assigned to her at random. It was given to her because Mueller designated it “related” to another case Jackson was already overseeing.
SNIP
Yet Stone’s true purpose in filing this motion may well be to try and quickly surface evidence Mueller has on him and others. Independent journalist Marcy Wheeler makes this case at her site EmptyWheel, theorizing that Stone is “trying to figure out what kind of evidence Mueller has to indict WikiLeaks” and “whether Mueller has the goods to name him as a co-conspirator.”
That’s because, now that Stone has filed this motion, Mueller has to respond. And while the publicly released details of his response may be redacted, the special counsel will likely have to reveal at least some sort of information about what warrants he’s referring to. That could tell us — and Stone — more about any larger case Mueller may (or may not) be planning. His deadline for this response is Friday.
ON EDIT:
Here is Mueller's filing today on Roger Stone, explaining how he is tied to the Russian hacker case.
https://assets.documentcloud.org/documents/5740797/2-15-19-US-Stone-Related-Case.pdf
= new reply since forum marked as read
