And I would note that Mr. Stone is a man who has 50 years of dirty tricks behind him. Get Me Roger Stone | Official Trailer [HD] | Netflix, The whole world was shocked by the rise Donald Trump, but there was one man who had been plotting it for years: Roger Stone. [4] Stone has written of his dislike for jeans and ascots and has praised seersucker three-piece suits, as well as Madras jackets in the summertime and velvet blazers in the winter. [182][183][184] After the trial, one of the jurors emphasized that the jury did not convict Stone based on his political beliefs. The couple gave birth to their daughter Robin Dole on 15 October 1954. [193][194][195] The next day he praised U.S. Attorney General William Barr for "taking charge" of the case and thanked Justice Department officials for recommending a lesser sentence than was proposed by the prosecutors who tried the case. [150][151][152], On September 26, 2017, Stone testified before the House Intelligence Committee behind closed doors. Gates also testified that Trump had spoken with Stone about the forthcoming releases. I like to keep physically fit. From overall longevity to lower stress levels, it works miracles. Stone said that Roy Cohn helped him arrange for independent candidate John B. Anderson to get the nomination of the Liberal Party of New York, a move that would help split the opposition to Reagan in the state. Often criticized for playing dirty political tricks, the couple was identified by some to be Lucy Ramirez and the 'unknown man' with the envelope in connection to the Bill Burkett memo in March 2004. [23], Stone's political career began in earnest on the 1972 Nixon campaign, with activities such as contributing money to a possible rival of Nixon in the name of the Young Socialist Alliance and then slipping the receipt to the Manchester Union-Leader. He lost his 1996 presidential bid to the incumbent Bill Clinton. [260] Labash described him as "a dandy by disposition who boasts of having not bought off-the-rack since he was 17", who has "taught reporters how to achieve perfect double-dimples underneath their tie knots". [33] In a lengthy statement containing an array of grievances, Trump attacked the prosecutors as "overzealous" and said, "Roger Stone has already suffered greatly. First Name Bob #23. McAuliffe cited a report in the New York Post in his accusations. According to Dailymail, in 1996, Roger and his wife Nydia Aka Nikki allegedly paid a covert reporter a visit in an exclusive swingers club in Washington, DC. [134] Stone tweeted before the leak, "It will soon [sic] the Podesta's time in the barrel". Since she became romantically involved with political consultant Roger Stone, both of them have surfaced on the media from time to time for diverse reasons. However, the jury in the case returned a verdict in favor of Stone in December 2017, finding that Redlich failed to prove Stone was involved with the flyers. "[243], In April 2021, the Justice Department filed a civil suit against Stone and his wife to recover about $2 million in alleged unpaid federal taxes, asserting they had used a commercial entity to shield their income and fund their personal expenses. [240] The committee also revealed ties between Stone and the Proud Boys extremist group. [26] Stone afterwards denied that he had contacted Assange or had known in advance about the leaked emails. The truth still matters [in spite of] Roger Stone's insistence that it doesn't [pose] a threat to our most fundamental institutions, to the very foundation of our democracy. Stone added, When that whole thing hit the fan in 1996, the reason I gave a blanket denial was that my grandparents were still alive. [200] Former Attorney General Eric Holder tweeted, "do not underestimate the danger of this situation: the political appointees in the DOJ are involving themselves in an inappropriate way in cases involving political allies of the President"; former director of the Office of Government Ethics Walter Shaub tweeted, "a corrupt authoritarian and his henchmen are wielding the Justice Department as a shield for friends and a sword for political rivals. The contact information listed lined up with Roger Stones email address. He married Nydia two years later. Stone told the Washington Post in a 2017 feature that he met his wife at an event during one of Ronald Reagans presidential campaigns. Stone had asserted that a juror was biased against him. According to reporter Greg Palast, Stone was a key figure in organizing the so-called Brooks Brothers riot, the demonstration by Republican operatives against the recount. [33][199] Trump personally called Stone to inform him that his sentence was being commuted. Eventually Magruder and Herbert Porter hired Stone to spy on rival presidential campaigns during the 1972 Democratic Party presidential primaries. [71], During the 2004 presidential campaign, Stone was an advisor (apparently unpaid) to Al Sharpton, a candidate in the Democratic primaries. Later, she was able to bag several photography assignments for reporting as well. WASHINGTON, Sept. 16 -- Republican strategist Roger Stone emphatically denied allegations in the National Enquirer this week that suggested he and his wife, Nydia, frequented sex clubs and posted . The pair got married in 1992. Because of BMS's willingness to represent brutal third-world dictators like Mobutu Sese Seko in Zaire and Ferdinand Marcos in the Philippines, the firm was branded "The Torturers' Lobby". [38] Trump pardoned Stone on December 23, 2020. A post shared by Nydia Bertran Stone (@nydia_b_stone) on Nov 25, 2017 at 8:26pm PST, In 1996, Roger Stone was working as a consultant on Senator Bob Doles presidential campaign. Five days before the leak, Stone tweeted, "Wednesday Hillary Clinton is done. [18][19][20][21][22] He has described his own political modus operandi as "Attack, attack, attack never defend" and "Admit nothing, deny everything, and launch a counterattack. This means that they have been forced into the situation of giving up their luxurious home in Fort Lauderdale, which is estimated to have cost the couple around $9,500 per month. Dole was born Mary Elizabeth Alexander Hanford in Salisbury, North Carolina, to Mary Ella (ne Cathey; 1901-2004) and John Van Hanford (1893-1978).. Dole attended Duke University and graduated with distinction in Political Science, on June 2, 1958.She was a finalist for an Angier B. Duke scholarship, a full-tuition award given to outstanding applicants who . After her family moved from Cuba to the United States, Nydia Stone began working professionally as a model and posed for local advertisements and marketing campaigns. He has one child from his first marriage and none from his second. [128][129][130] After his arraignment at the Miami federal courthouse in January 2019, they joined him on its steps holding signs that said, "Roger Stone is innocent," and promoting right-wing conspiracy theorist Alex Jones and his InfoWars website. Im not guilty of hypocrisy. (Cuban-American Photographer, Former Model and Second Wife of American Political Consultant, Roger Stone), http://wagcenter.com/politics-wags/nydia-bertran-stone-5-facts-about-roger-stones-wife/, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BqhIx5y4geQ, http://dailyentertainmentnews.com/breaking-news/roger-stones-wife-nydia-stone/. Stone said the messages were just innocent praise of the hacking. "He's been so loyal and so wonderful. President. [93] Stone told The Huffington Post that Johnson had a real role to play, although "I have no allusions [sic] of him winning. The exchange between Stone and this Jerusalem-based contact appears in FBI documents made public". [23] In 1977, at age 24, Stone won the presidency of the Young Republicans in a campaign managed by his friend Paul Manafort; they had compiled a dossier on each of the 800 delegates that gathered, which they called "whip books". My wife Nydia and I have always favored natural remedies and homeopathic solutions., Dinner at our favorite restaurant Cafe Europa, A post shared by Nydia Bertran Stone (@nydia_b_stone) on Dec 22, 2018 at 9:49pm PST. Dole was severely wounded in . The American 70-year-old politician is married to . [199] Representatives Jerrold Nadler and Carolyn B. Maloney, who chair two House committees, said that "No other president has exercised the clemency power for such a patently personal and self-serving purpose" and said that they would investigate whether Stone's commutation was a reward for protecting Trump. Bob Dole, while running for president in 1996, attends a campaign rally in Freeland, Michigan . [219] Stone publicly lobbied for clemency, stressing his loyalty to the president, saying: "He knows I was under enormous pressure to turn on him. Stone dislikes single-vent jackets (describing them as the sign of a "heathen"), saying he owns 100 silver-colored neckties and has 100 suits in storage. [91], In February 2012, Stone said that he had changed his party affiliation from the Republican Party to the Libertarian Party. No, it's smart. [110], In April 2016, Stone formed a pro-Trump activist group, Stop the Steal, and threatened "Days of Rage" if Republican party leaders tried to deny the nomination to Trump at the Republican National Convention in Cleveland. Stone is featured in Boogie Man: The Lee Atwater Story, documentary on Lee Atwater made in 2008. While she worked successfully as a model for a few years, she gradually discovered her passion for photography and spent her savings to purchase a good camera so that she can experiment with it. Nydia had been working at the event as a photographer. "[93], Stone considered running as a Libertarian candidate for governor of Florida in 2014, but in May 2013, he said in a statement that he would not run, and that he wanted to devote himself to campaigning in support of the 2014 Florida Amendment 2 referendum legalizing medical cannabis. [111][101] The Washington Post reported that Stone "is organizing [Trump] supporters as a force of intimidation", noting that Stone "has threatened to publicly disclose the hotel room numbers of delegates who work against Trump". [200] Zelinsky testified that in his career as a prosecutor, United States v. Roger Stone was the sole occasion in which he witnessed "political influence play any role in prosecutorial decision making,"[201] and that he opted to resign from the case and his temporary appointment in the U.S. Attorney's Office in D.C. "rather than be associated with the Department of Justice's actions at sentencing. It featured Nydia in a black negligee, which her husband later claimed was from a professional photoshoot in 1986, when she was working as a model. In the weeks afterwards he pressured the Trump administration for a pardon of all Members of Congress who supported overturning the 2020 election, including Ted Cruz, Josh Hawley, Jim Jordan, and Matt Gaetz. He has worked with candidates from Nixon to Ronald Reagan to Bob Dole, and his influence in Republican politics spans decades. Nydia Bertran, Roger Stone's second wife, married the controversial conservative political operative in Las Vegas in 1992. 1 Booster Goes Real Dirty to Attack the Clintons: With his new book and video project, can Roger Stone get any lower? [199] In testimony before the House Judiciary Committee, Zelinsky, one of the prosecutors who withdrew from the case after the Justice Department intervened to recommend a lighter sentence for Stone, said that the "highest levels" of Justice Department had been "exerting significant pressure" on prosecutors "to cut Stone a break" and "water down and in some cases outright distort" Stone's conduct. [36][37] On July 10, 2020, days before Stone was scheduled to report to prison, Trump commuted his sentence. Born in 1923 #18. . "[155][156][157][158][159], In a December 2017 interview with the Florida television station WBBH-TV, following the sentencing of Michael Cohen, Stone said that Cohen shouldn't have lied under oath, and Cohen was a "rat" because he turned on the president, something that Stone said he would never do. . Nydia Stone first met Roger Stone during one of President Ronald Reagans campaigns where she was working as a photographer. Such is the life of Roger Stone, political operative, Nixon-era dirty trickster, professional lord of mischief. [23] The Richard Nixon Foundation later clarified that Stone had been a 20-year-old junior scheduler on the campaign, and that to characterize Stone as one of Nixon's aides or advisers was a "gross misstatement". ', Greg Palast Talked Enron Corruption With BF Back in the Day, "Registration with the Foreign Agents Registration Act (FARA)", "Roger Stone and 'Ratfing': A Short History", "If You Ain't Got That Swing: Any Voters Still Up for Grabs? (Cuban-American Photographer, Former Model and Second Wife of American Political Consultant, Roger Stone) Nydia Stone is a Cuban-American photographer, former model, and political personality who is better known as the second wife of American political consultant, lobbyist and strategist, Roger Stone. [222][223], Other Trump advisors, including chief of staff Mark Meadows, son-in-law and senior adviser Jared Kushner, and White House Counsel Pat A. Cipollone were concerned about granting clemency to Stone,[33] viewing a grant of clemency as a political liability for Trump. During the November 12 testimony, former Trump campaign deputy chairman Rick Gates testified that Stone told campaign associates in April 2016 of WikiLeaks' plans to release documents, far earlier than previously known. Powered by. [161], In May 2018, Stone's social media consultant, Jason Sullivan, was issued grand jury subpoenas from the Special Counsel investigation. [153], On October 28, 2017, following a news report by CNN that indictments would be announced within a few days, Stone's Twitter account was suspended by Twitter for what it called "targeted abuse" of various CNN personnel in a series of derogatory, threatening and obscenity-filled tweets. It was in the year 1974 when the couple got married and unfortunately they divorced each other in 1990. [43][47] On the Good Morning America program he falsely stated, "An exhaustive investigation now indicates that a domestic employee, who I discharged for substance abuse on the second time that we learned that he had a drug problem, is the perpetrator who had access to my home, access to my computer, access to my password, access to my postage meter, access to my post-office box key. As U.S. attorney, Liu had overseen some ancillary cases referred by the Mueller investigation including the Stone prosecution, as well as a politically charged case involving former FBI deputy director Andrew McCabe, until attorney general Barr replaced her with his close advisor Shea in January 2020. CRIMINAL DOCKET FOR CASE #: 1:19-cr-00018-ABJ-1. Nydia Stones last Instagram post prior to her husband being found guilty was a photo showing her with her husband, Stone is holding a martini while Nydia is drinking red wine. [33] Stone's commutation followed a number of occasions in which Trump granted executive clemency to his supporters or political allies,[33][221] or following personal appeals or campaigns in conservative media,[199] as in the cases of Rod Blagojevich, Michael Milken, Joe Arpaio, Dinesh D'Souza, and Clint Lorance, as well as Bernard Kerik. However, he soon became fired from the job. [246][247] Stone also writes for his own fashion blog, Stone on Style. [33] Trump's grant of clemency to Stone,[226] however, marked "the first figure directly connected to the president's campaign to benefit from his clemency power. "[200] Zelinsky also testified that acting U.S. Attorney Timothy Shea made the request for a lighter sentence for Stone after coming under "heavy pressure from the highest levels of the Department of Justice" and out of fear of Trump. Please try to keep recent events in historical perspective and add more content related to non-recent events. However, after communist rule was established in the country under Fidel Castro's leadership, in 1959, her father decided to move to the United States with the family. . He was named chairman of the Young Republicans in 1977. He also has two children who are Adria Stone and Scott Stone. In addition, he worked on Ronald Reagan's campaign for president in . 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He planned the Trump campaign, and he is Trump's henchman and dirty trickster. [221] Carlson reportedly visited the white house and met with Jared Kushner to demand clemency for Stone. Her early childhood was spent in an affluent part of the country where she studied in prestigious schools. [131], The Washington Post reported in February 2021 that the FBI was investigating any role Stone might have had in influencing the Proud Boys and Oath Keepers in their participation in the 2021 storming of the United States Capitol. The couple recently made headlines by trying to settle a $2 million dollar lawsuit with the Justice Department over unpaid. Using the name Ann E.W. Were to kick 2018 to the street and welcome 2019., Nydia has used her Twitter account in the last few months to show her support for her husband. 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