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		</div><p>Roger Stone, a staunch ally of US President Donald Trump, has been sentenced to 40 months in federal prison.</p>
<p>It follows an extraordinary move by attorney general William Barr to back off his Justice Department’s original sentencing recommendation.</p>
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<p>US District Court Judge Amy Berman Jackson said Stone’s crimes demanded a significant time behind bars but said the seven to nine years originally recommended by the Justice Department were excessive.</p>
<p>Stone’s lawyers had asked for a sentence of probation, citing his age of 67 years, his health and his lack of criminal history.</p>
<figure id="attachment_124741" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-124741" style="width: 600px" class="wp-caption aligncenter"><img class="size-full wp-image-124741" src="https://londonglossy.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/RogerStoneEPA_large.jpg" alt="Roger Stone, Donald Trump, Politics, Arrest" width="600" height="338" /><figcaption id="caption-attachment-124741" class="wp-caption-text">Roger Stone (R)</figcaption></figure>
<p>He was convicted in November on all seven counts of an indictment that accused him of lying to Congress, tampering with a witness and obstructing the House investigation into whether the Trump campaign co-ordinated with Russia to tip the 2016 election.</p>
<p>The sentence came amid Mr Trump’s unrelenting defence of his longtime confidant that has led to a mini-revolt inside the Justice Department and allegations the president has interfered in the case.</p>
<p>Mr Trump took to Twitter to denounce as a “miscarriage of justice” the initial recommendation by Justice Department prosecutors that Stone receive at least seven years in prison.</p>
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<p>Mr Barr then backed off that recommendation, prompting four prosecutors to quit Stone’s case.</p>
<p>Judge Jackson angrily denied that Stone was being punished for his politics or his allies.</p>
<p>“He was not prosecuted, as some have claimed, for standing up for the president. He was prosecuted for covering up for the president,” she said.</p>
<p>Stone was the sixth Trump aide or adviser to be convicted of charges brought as part of special counsel Robert Mueller’s Russia investigation.</p>
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