A former assistant U.S. attorney who prosecuted Roger Stone landed a new job in Washington, D.C.
Jonathan Kravis, who promptly resigned from the Justice Department after President Trump condemned the original recommended sentence for his longtime confidant, found a new role in the Office of Attorney General.
According to the Associated Press, Kravis will run the public corruption unit in the office, saying his goal is to prosecute lower-level cases that go unnoticed or unaddressed by the U.S. Attorney’s Office.
“Here in the District of Columbia, there are numerous local public corruption offenses that are on the code book, in the D.C. code, that really are not enforced in this jurisdiction right now because the U.S. attorney’s office properly is focused on federal corruption matters,” Kravis told the outlet on Thursday.
“Those provisions don’t get the attention that they need,” he continued, adding he hopes to focus on campaign finance violations.
After Trump decried Stone’s original sentencing as a “miscarriage of justice” on Twitter, Attorney General William Barr intervened by having the department lessen the recommended seven to nine years. The DOJ said the original recommendation did not “accurately reflect the Department of Justice’s position on what would be a reasonable sentence in this matter.”
Barr said the DOJ’s decision for a more lenient sentence had nothing to do with Trump’s tweets. “Do you go forward with what you think is the right decision, or do you pull back because of the tweet? And that just sort of illustrates how disruptive these tweets can be,” he said then.
In February, Stone, who was found guilty of witness tampering and lying to Congress, 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 gets out.
