U.S. judge earlier depicted next to crosshairs in Stone Instagram photo gives attorneys until Monday to answer.
By Spencer S. Hsu Spencer S. Hsu Investigative reporter Email Bio Follow March 1 at 8:43 PM Republican operative and longtime Trump friend Roger Stone faced fresh legal trouble Friday after a federal judge ordered his attorneys to explain why they failed to tell her before now about the imminent publication of a book that could violate his gag order by potentially criticizing the judge or prosecutors with special counsel Robert S. Mueller III.
Stone, 66, is accused of lying to Congress and obstructing justice to cover up his efforts to gather information concerning hacked Democratic Party emails during the 2016 campaign. Jackson said Stone’s attorneys could have told the court about the unidentified book either in a February court filing or Feb. 21 hearing into whether she should impose a gag order to limit prejudicial pretrial publicity and ensure Stone’s right to a fair trial.
The Intagram post solicited donations to Stone’s legal defense fund and said he faced a “show trial” in Jackson’s courtroom after his indictment stemming from the special counsel’s investigation of Russian interference in the 2016 election. The post referred to the special counsel as “Deep State hitman Mueller,” and the hashtag “#fixisin.”
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