Roger Stone violated gag order with social media posts, prosecutors say

[pnwmom]

Source: CNN

Washington (CNN)Federal prosecutors in a new court filing Thursday allege that longtime Donald Trump associate Roger Stone has violated his gag order in his criminal case with recent social media posts.

"In the past several days, Stone posted statements on social media about this case and the special counsel's investigation and appears to have specifically targeted those posts at major media outlets," prosecutors said in a court filing Thursday.

"On or about June 18 and 19, 2019, the defendant posted to Instagram and Facebook, commenting about this case and inviting news organizations to cover the issue," prosecutors wrote. "This is a violation of the current conditions of release."

Stone was barred by Judge Amy Berman Jackson from making public statements about his case in February, after he posted on Instagram a photo of the judge with crosshairs behind her head. He apologized to Jackson, but she still warned him of severe consequences if he crossed the line of the court's orders.

Read more: https://www.cnn.com/2019/06/20/politics/roger-stone-gag-order-challenge/index.html

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THE FULL COURT FILING IS AT THIS AXIOS LINK:

https://www.axios.com/roger-stone-violating-gag-order-instagram-658c0451-0680-4ba4-a699-1fa7458ff18c.html?utm_sourcetwitter&utm_mediumsocial&utm_campaignorganic&utm_content1100


[div class"excerpt"]Kristine Phillips
✔@kristinegWP

Federal prosecutors in Roger Stone case alerted the judge of recent social media posts that they say violate a gag order preventing him from commenting about his case and the Russia investigation. Here's one of the now-deleted Instagram posts:

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Darren Samuelsohn
✔@dsamuelsohn

BREAKING: Federal prosecutors say Roger Stone has violated his gag order, citing his recent social media posts and file motion to Judge Jackson requesting an immediate hearing. Story TK.

[wryter2000]

1. Can we lock him up now?

What does he have to do to get some consequences for his actions?

[wryter2000]

2. I wonder

Doesn't John Brennan know the difference between "hung" and "hanged"?

[donkeypoofed]

3. Who cares anymore? Judge wont do anything anyways

If he can threaten to shoot the judge, he can certainly fuckin-well threaten Brenner. Nothing will come of this except maybe a monetary fine - ooooooooooh.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

4. Here's a link to the prosecutor's memo:

http://cdn.cnn.com/cnn/2019/images/06/20/stone.gag.order.pdf It's impossible to read on Twitter so here's the whole thing. They are kicking his butt very hard.

[pnwmom]

5. What's your guess? Will the judge revoke parole or just add some other restriction

on top of the ones that haven't worked?

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

6. Hard to say. She didn't sound especially sympathetic last time,

and the prosecutor made a pretty strong argument that Stone had violated the gag order more than once. They didn't ask for a specific remedy, leaving that to the judge.

[groundloop]

7. ENOUGH with giving these criminals a slap on the wrist - LOCK HIM UP NOW !!!!!!!

[SkatmanRoth]

8. Lock Stone up. Take away his cell phone

If he wants information, he is allowed to read the Washington Post or watch MSNBC on the TV.

[duforsure]

9. His bank acct must be getting low

So he does the same thing as the illegitimate president does, incite people to con them into giving money for his go fund me page. And the money goes into their pockets to keep promoting their con.

[Lucky Luciano]

10. Imprison the motherfucker. nt

[SharonAnn]

11. Of course he did. That's what he does.

[trusty elf]

12. O, Stone, be not so!