Former Barr deputy says intervention in 'crony' Roger Stone case reeks of 'favoritism'

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'It looks to many present and former federal prosecutors that undue leniency was being afforded to a privileged, white friend of the president,' Stuart Gerson wrote.

for Just Security, Stuart M. Gerson, who helmed the Justice Department's civil division from 1989 to 1993, described Stone as"a crony of the president" whose assist from the department suggests a"whiff of favoritism.

U.S. Attorney General William Barr walks through a hallway at the U.S. Capitol February 25, 2020 in Washington, DC. Barr is on Capitol Hill to attend the weekly Senate Republican policy luncheon.A few days later, the Federal Judges Association, a national association representing a majority of the judiciary's Article III judges, convened an emergency meeting to discuss the matter.

 

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