re: Breaking development in Roger Stone Case.

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No. You are a dishonest and ignorant useful idiot that doesn’t even know the elements of the crime. If the quote you posted is the “rock solid” proof you need....it is even more evident you don’t know what you don’t know. Stop playing lawyer. You are awful at it.

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18 U.S. Code §?1512. Tampering with a witness, victim, or an informant

(b) Whoever knowingly uses intimidation, threatens, or corruptly persuades another person, or attempts to do so, or engages in misleading conduct toward another person, with intent to—
(1) influence, delay, or prevent the testimony of any person in an official proceeding;
(2) cause or induce any person to—
(A) withhold testimony, or withhold a record, document, or other object, from an official proceeding;
(B) alter, destroy, mutilate, or conceal an object with intent to impair the object’s integrity or availability for use in an official proceeding;
(C) evade legal process summoning that person to appear as a witness, or to produce a record, document, or other object, in an official proceeding; or
(D) be absent from an official proceeding to which such person has been summoned by legal process;

Pretty sure the indictment covers this at a minimum

Stone is looking for a technicality to excuse his criminal conduct. The idea that crimes like witness tampering/obstruction of justice depend on the investigation resulting in charges (or even on the veracity of the investigation) is insane. They are crimes because the conduct can materially impair an investigation

You don't get to burn your house down to prevent a thorough investigation -- that's a crime.