A prosecutor who withdrew from the Roger Stone case after DOJ leaders intervened to recommend a lighter sentence intends to testify that he and his colleagues were pressured to cut Stone "a break" and were told it was because of his relationship with Trump https://www.politico.com/news/2020/06/23/prosecutor-says-he-was-pressured-to-cut-roger-stone-a-break-because-of-his-ties-to-trump-336075">https://www.politico.com/news/2020...

"What I heard — repeatedly — was that Roger Stone was being treated differently from any other defendant because of his relationship to the President," Aaron Zelinsky, one of four prosecutors who quit the case, plans to tell the House Judiciary Committee https://www.politico.com/news/2020/06/23/prosecutor-says-he-was-pressured-to-cut-roger-stone-a-break-because-of-his-ties-to-trump-336075">https://www.politico.com/news/2020...

"I was also told that the acting U.S. Attorney was giving Stone such unprecedentedly favorable treatment because he was & #39;afraid of the President,& #39;" Zelinsky continues to say in his prepared testimony https://www.politico.com/news/2020/06/23/prosecutor-says-he-was-pressured-to-cut-roger-stone-a-break-because-of-his-ties-to-trump-336075">https://www.politico.com/news/2020...

Zelinsky will appear alongside antitrust prosecutor John Elias, who plans to testify that Attorney General William Barr personally ordered the Justice Department& #39;s Antitrust Division to launch politically motivated reviews of 10 cannabis mergers https://www.politico.com/news/2020/06/23/prosecutor-says-he-was-pressured-to-cut-roger-stone-a-break-because-of-his-ties-to-trump-336075">https://www.politico.com/news/2020...