Roger Stone, a long time political strategist and friend of Donald Trump was on Thursday sentenced to forty months in prison on Thursday for lying to Congress and witness tampering.
The Sentence has been regarded as being light by some quarters as the Prosecution team recommended 7-10 years sentence.
Stone, 67, was found guilty in November on seven counts of lying to Congress, obstruction and witness tampering.
Judge Amy Berman Jackson said Stone threatened her, but Mr Trump said he should be cleared.
He is the sixth Trump aide convicted on charges linked to a justice department inquiry that found Russian attempts to boost Mr Trump’s 2016 campaign.
Stone was found guilty of lying to the House Intelligence Committee about his attempts to contact Wikileaks, the website that released damaging emails about Mr Trump’s 2016 Democratic election rival Hillary Clinton.
US intelligence officials have concluded the messages were stolen by Russian hackers.
Stone will serve two years’ probation after his custodial sentence. He has also been fined $20,000 (£15,500) and must serve 250 hours of community service.
He will not have to report to prison until the judge rules on a pending defence appeal.
Reacting to the news of his ally’s sentence, Trump said: “I’d love to see Roger exonerated, and I’d love to see it happen because I personally think he was treated very unfairly.”
“It is my strong opinion that the forewoman of the jury is totally tainted,” Mr Trump also said. “She was an anti-Trump activist.”
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