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R-31A Adjudicated, finalAssociates

Roger Stone

Evidence grade A: A jury or court decided, and the appeals are over.

This grade describes the case against the associate, not a finding against him.

What happened

On November 15, 2019, a federal jury convicted his longtime adviser Roger Stone on all seven counts: lying to Congress, witness tampering and obstructing the House investigation of Russian interference. The lies concerned his efforts to reach WikiLeaks during the 2016 campaign.

Where it stands

He commuted Stone’s 40-month sentence in July 2020, days before Stone was to report to prison, and pardoned him on December 23, 2020.

Harm

Institutional. Lying to Congress and pressuring a witness in a national security investigation.

His response

Minutes after the verdict he called it “a double standard like never seen before in the history of our Country.”

Sources

  1. KPBS (NPR), Nov. 15, 2019kpbs.orghttps://www.kpbs.org/news/2019/11/15/roger-stone-guilty-witness-tampering-lying-congres #202
  2. NPR, Dec. 23, 2020npr.orghttps://www.npr.org/2020/12/23/949820820/trump-pardons-roger-stone-paul-manafort-and-charles-kushne #263

Status checked October 15, 2026. Court cases move; before relying on a pending matter, open the source for later developments.