The political consultant was arrested in Florida in January and released on bail. Pleading not guilty, he had been indicted as part of this sprawling investigation by the special prosecutor Robert Mueller.
Roger Stone, 67, was found guilty by a jury of seven counts against him. He was judged because of his false testimony in 2017 to parliamentarians who were investigating the Kremlin's efforts to undermine the candidacy of Donald Trump's Democratic opponent, Hillary Clinton.               
Roger Stone, former long-time advisor to Donald Trump, was convicted on Friday of lying in Congress and witness tampering with the investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 US election.
The political consultant was arrested in Florida in January and released on bail. Pleading not guilty, he had been indicted as part of this sprawling investigation by the special prosecutor Robert Mueller.
Roger Stone, 67, was found guilty by a jury of seven counts against him. He was judged because of his false testimony in 2017 to parliamentarians who were investigating the Kremlin's efforts to undermine the candidacy of Donald Trump's Democratic opponent, Hillary Clinton.
This loyal American president is among the six members of Donald Trump's entourage, more or less close to him, to have been indicted or sentenced in the wake of Mr. Mueller's investigation. Mr. Stone will face his sentence on February 6 and risk 20 years in prison.
The tenant of the White House has also been quick to react to this court decision, Donald Trump denouncing a system "in double standards, two measures as the history of our country has never seen." A man of flamboyant style and custom-made costumes, Roger Stone was found guilty of lying to Congress about his contacts with the WikiLeaks organization about hacked Democratic emails in the 2016 presidential election. Mr. Stone argued that the charges against him were for political purposes, but prosecutors have shown that he lied and intimidated witnesses to protect Donald Trump from embarrassment.
In particular, the jurors saw text messages in which Roger Stone pushed an associate to lie about his role as intermediary between him and WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange. The case revealed new details about the interests carried by the Trump team in the emails of the Democratic Party hacked by Russia and made public by WikiLeaks.
In making his findings in the spring, prosecutor Mueller said he did not find evidence of any dealings between the Trump team and Moscow, but detailed a series of disturbing pressures on his investigations by the Republican president.