Chuck Ross – The lead juror at Roger Stone’s trial said in a written questionnaire that she was “not sure” whether she posted online about the Russia investigation, though her Twitter feed shows that she posted multiple stories about the probe. – Tomeka Hart’s responses on the jury questionnaire, a portion of which was obtained…
With the recent commuting of Rod Blagojevich’s sentence, Trump has already been freeing up several of his buddies. Now, he’s implicated in one particular opportunistic pardoning scheme. According to Julian Assange’s lawyer, the founder of the notorious whistle-blowing website Wikileaks was allegedly offered a pardon by former Republican California U.S. Representative Dana Rohrabacher. Rohrabacher supposedly…
Chuck Rosson A federal judge in Washington, D.C., sentenced Roger Stone to 40 months in prison Thursday. On Feb. 10, prosecutors in the U.S. Attorney’s Office in Washington recommended that Stone serve between 87 months and 108 months in jail for his crimes. President Donald Trump responded hours later, saying the recommendation was “disgraceful” and…
Chuck Ross President Donald Trump blasted the Justice Department’s recommendation that GOP operative Roger Stone serve up to nine years in prison, and he indicated Tuesday that a pardon could be in the offing for his longtime associate. “Cannot allow this miscarriage of justice!” Trump wrote on Twitter, citing a Daily Caller News Foundation report…
Mary Margaret Olohan Prosecutors dropped an investigation into 2010 rape allegations against WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange on Tuesday. Assange, 48, is being held in prison in Britain, but the investigation has been discontinued, according to Politico. The decision came after a Swedish court ruled in June that Assange would not be detained. “I want to inform about…
Chuck Ross The government’s star witness in the trial against Roger Stone said he feels “horrible” that the longtime Trump confidant was convicted in federal court Friday. “I hate to see the guy go to jail because of me,” Randy Credico told Yahoo! News’s Michael Isikoff moments after a jury in Washington, D.C., convicted Stone on seven…
Julian Assange, 47, was forcefully evicted from his 2,488-day exile in the Ecuadorian Embassy in London early Thursday morning when British authorities entered the embassy with permission from the Ecuadorian government.
Chelsea Manning was sent to jail on Friday after being held in contempt of court for refusing to testify before a grand jury in a sealed case out of the U.S District Court in Eastern Virginia. Manning is an anti-secrecy activist and former U.S. Army intelligence analyst whose release of classified information to WikiLeaks in…
Trump Confidant Roger Stone Charged In Mueller Probe Chuck Ross on January 25, 2019 Roger Stone, a longtime confidant of President Donald Trump, was indicted Friday morning on charges in the special counsel’s investigation. Prosecutors charged Stone, 66, with seven counts, including five for making false statements to Congress, one for witness tampering, and one for…
LISTEN TO TLR’S LATEST PODCAST: By Eric Lieberman The CIA has been targeting WiFi routers to conduct surveillance for several years, according to documents published Thursday by the anti-secrecy organization WikiLeaks. Using advanced firmware called CherryBlossom (CB), the intelligence agency could allegedly monitor unsuspecting users’ internet activity. The technology also empowers the agency with the ability…