Justice Department to lower recommended sentence for Roger Stone

By MICHAEL BALSAMO
WASHINGTON  — The Justice Department will take the extraordinary step of lowering the recommended prison time for Roger Stone, an ally of President Donald Trump, a federal official said Tuesday, just hours after the president condemned the recommended sentence as “very horrible and unfair.”
The official said there was no contact with the White House before the decision was made to lower the sentence recommendation. He spoke to The Associated Press on con