Judge Reams Stone For His Delayed Notice Of His Mueller-Bashing Book Intro
Source: Talking Points Memo
By Tierney Sneed
March 5, 2019 2:43 pm
A federal judge took Roger Stone to task Tuesday for his delay in notifying her about a book introduction he wrote bashing the special counsel Robert Mueller’s probe — an introduction that appeared to be at odds with a gag order the judge had imposed in his case.
U.S. District Judge Amy Berman Jackson denied Stone’s request that she clarify that his work on the re-release of the the book — which republished last month under a new title, “The Myth of Russian Collusion” — did not constitute a violation of the gag order. She also suggested that his request, first filed under seal last week, may have been a gambit to gin up publicity about the book.
“In either event, there is no question that the order prohibited and continues to prohibit the defendant from making any public statements, using any medium, concerning the investigation,” the judge said in Tuesday’s order. “It does not matter when the defendant may have first formulated the opinions expressed, or when he first put them into words: he may no longer share his views on these particular subjects with the world.”
The judge had banned Stone from commenting publicly about the case and its participants at a Feb. 21 hearing, after he had posted on Instagram an ominous photo her, with a crosshairs in its background, that was accompanied by an inflammatory caption.
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