Roger Stone ordered to report to prison by end of June

Roger Stone must report to prison by the end of June, where he will become Inmate No. 19579-104.

Stone, the longtime Trump confidant and self-described "dirty trickster" who was convicted in a spinoff case from special counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation, will begin his 40-month prison sentence on June 30, according to an order from the Bureau of Prisons, the Washington Examiner can confirm.

For safety and security reasons, the Bureau of Prisons doesn’t share an inmate's designated institution until after the inmate has arrived.

Stone reacted on Instagram, saying that “the Bureau of Prisons has changed the date.... of my surrender to June 30 but I will NOT be quarantined for Covid-19." The message was accompanied by the hashtags “#DeathSentence” and “#FreeRogerStone.” Stone added on Instagram that he believed a host of other figures in the Trump-Russia case, such as fired FBI Director James Comey, former CIA Director John Brennan, “and Mueller himself” lied to Congress but were never charged. He also attacked presiding Judge Amy Berman Jackson as “deeply biased” and called the jury forewoman “corrupt.”

Stone was arrested in January 2019 and was later found guilty in November on five separate counts of lying to the House Intelligence Committee during its investigation into Russian interference about his alleged outreach to WikiLeaks in 2016, one count that he “corruptly obstructed” the congressional investigation, and another for attempting to intimidate a possible congressional witness, radio host Randy Credico.

Stone was sentenced to 40 months for obstruction of justice and 12 months for the other five counts to be served concurrently. Stone also received a $20,000 fine and 24 months of supervised release when he leaves prison. He has been awaiting the start of his sentence at his home in Florida for the past few months.

Stone has not been told to follow a new Bureau of Prisons directive that incoming inmates must go to a federal quarantine site first because he is surrendering voluntarily. Last week’s directive said the Bureau of Prisons “will process all newly-sentenced Bureau inmates through one of three quarantine sites” in Mississippi, California, or Oklahoma “or through a Bureau detention center/jail unit.” Stone will skip that step.

Scott Taylor, a spokesman for the Bureau of Prisons, told the Washington Examiner that the bureau issued a new guidance in late March “tha... (Read more)

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