By Darren Samuelsohn, Natasha Bertrand
POLITICO
June 21, 2019
Roger Stone’s recent social media posts challenging the criminal charges he’s fighting put him in violation of a court-imposed gag order and may require him to be jailed, federal prosecutors argued in a new motion on Thursday.
The U.S. attorney from Washington, D.C., who is handling the case originally brought by special counsel Robert Mueller against the longtime Donald Trump adviser, took issue with several of Stone’s posts on Instagram, including several this week that question why he’s not getting more media coverage about his attorneys’ recent legal filings.
Those posts, the prosecutors argue, run counter to the gag order that U.S. District Court Judge Amy Berman Jackson issued against Stone in February that restricted him from making any public comments about his case involving false statements to Congress, obstruction and witness tampering.
