On July 10, 2020, days before Stone was scheduled to report to prison, Trump commuted his sentence.
In November 2019, a jury convicted him on all seven felony counts.
On January 25, 2019, Stone was arrested at his Fort Lauderdale, Florida, home in connection with Robert Mueller's Special Counsel investigation and charged in an indictment with witness tampering, obstructing an official proceeding, and five counts of making false statements. Nearly three dozen search warrants were unsealed in April 2020 which revealed contacts between Stone and Assange, and that Stone orchestrated hundreds of fake Facebook accounts and bloggers to run a political influence scheme on social media. Stone and Assange have denied these claims. However, two associates of Stone have said he collaborated with WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange during the 2016 presidential campaign to discredit Hillary Clinton. Stone officially left the Trump campaign on August 8, 2015. The Netflix documentary film Get Me Roger Stone focuses on Stone's past and role in Trump's presidential campaign. He has described his political modus operandi as "Attack, attack, attack – never defend" and "Admit nothing, deny everything, launch counterattack." Stone first suggested Trump run for president in early 1998 while he was Trump's casino business lobbyist in Washington. Over the course of the 2016 Trump presidential campaign, Stone promoted a number of falsehoods and conspiracy theories. : 125Ī longtime friend of Donald Trump, Stone has been variously described as a "renowned infighter", a "seasoned practitioner of hard-edged politics", a "mendacious windbag", a "veteran Republican strategist", and a political fixer. By 1990, it was one of the leading lobbyists for American companies and foreign organizations. corporations and trade associations, as well as foreign governments. : 124 During the 1980s, BMSK became a top lobbying firm by leveraging its White House connections to attract high-paying clients, including U.S. Kelly and was renamed Black, Manafort, Stone and Kelly in 1984. In 1980, he co-founded a Washington, D.C.–based lobbying firm with Paul Manafort and Charles R.
In addition to frequently serving as a campaign adviser, Stone was a political lobbyist. Since the 1970s, Stone has worked on the campaigns of Republican politicians, including Richard Nixon, Ronald Reagan, Jack Kemp, Bob Dole, George W. August 27, 1952) is an American conservative political consultant and lobbyist. Roger Jason Stone (born Roger Joseph Stone Jr.