Justice Department Tells Court Not to Delay the Start of Roger Stone’s Prison Sentence

Justice Department Tells Court Not to Delay the Start of Roger Stone’s Prison Sentence
Roger Stone, former adviser to President Donald Trump, departs the E. Barrett Prettyman United States Courthouse in Washington on Nov. 15, 2019. Win McNamee/Getty Images
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The Justice Department has told a federal appeals court that it supports a lower court’s decision that orders Roger Stone, a former political adviser to President Donald Trump, to start his prison sentence on July 14.

The department’s attorneys wrote in a court filing on Thursday that while they did not oppose Stone’s request to push back the date of his self-surrender, it supported a district court’s decision to require Stone to report to prison next week.