8/1/2019

LEGAL/ROBERT MUELLER/ROGER STONE/TRUMP PEOPLE: “Roger Stone has lost his attempts to get rid of his criminal charges, but will get access to some unredacted parts of the Mueller report as he prepares for his trial. Judge Amy Berman Jackson of the US District Court in Washington, DC, declined on Thursday to throw out any part of Stone’s indictment after he filed various motions to dismiss attacking the criminal charges and the broader appointment and work of special counsel Robert Mueller. Stone was indicted in January on seven counts of obstruction, lying to Congress during September 2017 testimony and witness tampering. The charges all relate to his efforts to reach WikiLeaks in 2016 over the publication of hacked emails that could hurt then-presidential candidate Hillary Clinton and help candidate Donald Trump, a friend of his. He pleaded not guilty and his trial is set for November. Jackson’s opinion Thursday [8-1-19] was yet another opportunity for a federal judge to endorse Mueller’s prosecutorial decisions — after three other federal trial-level judges also upheld Mueller’s work.”

Katelyn Polantz, “Judge won’t dismiss Roger Stone case, but allows him to see unredacted Mueller docs,” CNN Politics, CNN.com, August 1, 2019 5:47 pm