Two federal prosecutors in the Roger Stone case have resigned hours after the Dept. of Justice signaled it will overrule their sentencing recommendation of 7 to 9 years in prison for the self-described “dirty trickster,” a confidant of President Donald Trump.
Aaron Zelinsky, who was one of the federal prosecutors who submitted the 7 to 9 year request to a federal judge, formally withdrew from the case and in a court filing announced he had “resigned” his special appointment to the Stone prosecution, Politico reports.
In a dead of night tweet President Trump called the sentencing recommendation a “miscarriage of justice!”
CNN ‘s Jeremy Herb reports a second federal prosecutor on the Stone case, Jonathan Kravis, has just quit as an Assistant United States Attorney.
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