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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsRoger Stone prosecutor withdraws from the case!!!!
Looks like Trump crossed yet another Zelinsky.
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Scott MacFarlane?Verified account @MacFarlaneNews · 1m1 minute ago
WHOA: Prosecutor withdraws himself from Roger Stone case
12:02 PM - 11 Feb 2020
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Roger Stone prosecutor withdraws from the case!!!! (Original Post)
Tommy_Carcetti
Feb 2020
OP
He refused to take the personal loyalty oath. Stone has low friends in high places.
Marcuse
Feb 2020
#10
Shrike47
(6,913 posts)1. Choked on the hypocrisy? I would.
Backseat Driver
(4,394 posts)2. Can't make this stuff up!
Roland99
(53,342 posts)3. From Andrew Laufer...
This happens regularly with a changing of the guard, so to speak. DOJ attorneys are assigned cases. They cant withdraw without consent from their supervisor.
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Lindsay
(3,276 posts)4. This seems not to be just another
changing of the guard.
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Wow, Mueller prosecutor Zelinsky withdraws from the Stone case AND includes this footnote(!):
"The Court is advised that the undersigned attorney has resigned effective immediately after this filing as a Special Assistant United States Attorney for District of Columbia"
spanone
(135,874 posts)7. Changing of WHAT guard?
talking about Barr?
stopdiggin
(11,361 posts)5. so Laufer is saying this is nothing out of the ordinary? (nt)
Roland99
(53,342 posts)6. He's reserving judgment. For now.
But the guy didnt just withdraw from the case, he resigned from the DOJ
Seems yuge to me
The_jackalope
(1,660 posts)9. Related to the proposed reduction in sentence?
Z: "You're shittin" me? A reduction that big?"
Barr: "No shit. Suck it up, buttercup."
Z: "I fucking quit."
FBaggins
(26,758 posts)11. I think it's the same thing in this case
If he's one of Mueller's prosecutors, then he was only an AUSA because of that role. Once he's off the case, I think he's out anyway.
I think the key here is that the DOJ is overruling a Mueller prosecutor. Something that supposedly hadn't happened when the report was written.
Marcuse
(7,506 posts)10. He refused to take the personal loyalty oath. Stone has low friends in high places.