The top prosecutor of Roger Stone slammed Attorney General William Barr for influencing cases against President Trump's friends and accused him of undermining the integrity of the department, in a Washington Post op-ed.
Jonathan Kravis and the other federal prosecutors who quit the Stone case had not spoken publicly about it, and the op-ed breaks Kravis' silence on why he left and how he thought Barr had handled the case. It adds to a growing backlash against Barr's moves in the cases from top former officials; a day earlier, former Justice Department national security chief Mary McCord also condemned Barr in a New York Times op-ed.
Prosecutors had initially asked Stone to be sentenced to seven to nine years in prison, but Barr subsequently said that was too long.Kravis discusses his decision to resign three months ago from Stone's case, saying he left a job"I loved because I believed the department had abandoned its responsibility to do justice in one of my cases, United States v. Roger Stone.
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