"[115], During the campaign, Stone frequently promoted conspiracy theories, including the false claim that Clinton aide Huma Abedin was connected to the Muslim Brotherhood. [41] He grew up in the community of Vista, part of the town of Lewisboro, New York, on the Connecticut border. 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Stone told the Washington Post in a 2017 feature that he met his wife at an event during one of Ronald Reagans presidential campaigns. His bravado has pushed. [232], After Trump's November 2020 U.S. Presidential election loss, Stone urged followers to "fight until the bitter end". He was married twice and his second wife was former Senator Elizabeth Hanford of North Carolina. In 1980, he co-founded a Washington lobbying firm with Reagan adviser Charles Black and Paul Manafort, who went . Republican political strategist Lee Atwater joined the firm in 1985, after serving in the #2 position on Reagan-Bush 1984. Nydia Bertan was born on May 8, 1946 in Cuba. After relocating to the USA, she started working instead of going back to school. [189][190] That afternoon the Department of Justice filed a revised sentencing memorandum, saying the initial recommendation could be "considered excessive and unwarranted under the circumstances." Stone was fired by Sen. Bob Dole in the '70s for being a Nixonian 'dirty trickster' Stone, born in 1952, was in his late teens when he became an aide for President Richard Nixon's 1972 . "[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. Roger Stone, 66, and his wife Nydia, who went by the pseudonym 'Nikki', were regulars of the notorious private sex club Capitol Couples in Washington D.C. in the mid-1990s View gallery The. [38] Trump pardoned Stone on December 23, 2020. However, Dole and Holden separated in 1972, and Phyllis passed away . [25] Stone first suggested Trump run for President in early 1998 while Stone was Trump's casino business lobbyist in Washington. In 2017, she made an appearance as herself on a documentary on her husband's life titled 'Get Me Roger Stone'. Using the name Ann E.W. Roger had denied the allegations that they were involved in publishing the advertisements in a two-page report that pointed towards "an acrimonious divorce" five years ago and put the blame on an unnamed "sick, disgruntled" person, who had been placing steamy and suggestive photos of him and his wife on mate-swapping websites for several years. Interestingly, Roger Stone is not the only one who was previously married. [23], Stone, the "keeper of the Nixon flame",[55] was an adviser to the former President in his post-presidential years, serving as "Nixon's man in Washington". Attorneys who were prosecuting the case Jonathan Kravis, Aaron Zelinsky, Adam Jed and Michael Marando withdrew from the case, and Kravis resigned from the U.S. Attorney's Office altogether. [33] On August 17, 2020, he dropped the appeal of his convictions. [citation needed] Stone married his first wife Anne Elizabeth Wesche in 1974. [208], On February 20, 2020, Judge Jackson sentenced Stone to 40 months in federal prison and a $20,000 fine for his crimes, but allowed him to delay the start of his sentence pending resolution of Stone's post-trial motions. [214] On June 27, Judge Jackson rescheduled Stone's surrender date as July 14,[215][216][217] but also ordered him to immediately begin serving time in home confinement before reporting to prison. In 1992, Nydia Bertan wed Roger Stone in Las Vegas. 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. 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. [4][259] Labash wrote that Stone "often sets his pronouncements off with the utterance 'Stone's Rules,' signifying to listeners that one of his shot-glass commandments is coming down, a pithy dictate uttered with the unbending certitude one usually associates with the Book of Deuteronomy." @rogerjstonejr @adria_stone, A post shared by Nydia Bertran Stone (@nydia_b_stone) on Nov 8, 2019 at 2:47pm PST, The Associated Press reported in February 2019 that former Republican House Speaker Newt Gingrich had allowed Nydia access to his email client list in order to solicit donations for Stones legal defense. Mr. Stone was not a campaign aide or adviser. As I detail in " Cucks, Cuckolding and Campaign. He would later work for Bob Dole and on Ronald Reagan's presidential campaign. He is described as a flamboyant person who has never been apologetic about the means he has used to ensure the success of his candidates. [83], In February 2010, Stone became campaign manager for Kristin Davis, a madam linked with the Eliot Spitzer prostitution scandal, in her bid for the Libertarian Party nomination for governor of New York in the 2010 election. You got nothing. He has worked with candidates from Nixon to Ronald Reagan to Bob Dole, and his influence in Republican politics spans decades. "[74] Critics suggested that Stone was only working with Sharpton as a way to undermine the Democratic Party's chances of winning the election. 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He was forced to resign following a National Enquirer story that accused Stone of posting ads looking for sexual partners to join him and Nydia in the bedroom. Thereafter, however, he resigned from his position as a consultant to the New York State Senate Republican Campaign Committee at Bruno's request. [23] Stone denied making or distributing the advertisement, and said it was Atwater's doing. Stone was accused on an episode of Hardball with Chris Matthews on August 22, 2007, of being the voice on an expletive-laden voicemail threatening Bernard Spitzer, father of Eliot, with subpoenas. 1/2", "Mr. Stone, during his time as a student at George Washington University, was a junior scheduler on the Nixon reelection committee. [114] He suggested that the Saudi government or members of the Saudi royal family directly supported or financed the September 11 attacks, tweeting that "Instead of meeting with the Saudis @realDonaldTrump should be demanding they pay for the attack on America on 9/11 which they financed. 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. When he was advising Bob . Speaking after the statute of limitations for bribery had expired, Stone later said, "I paid his law firm. Puzzling footage going viral on social media shows Joe Biden refusing to acknowledge Vice President Kamala Harris during a memorial for former Republican Sen. Bob Dole. Stone was sentenced 40 months in prison. (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/. [192] Trump later said he had not asked the Justice Department to recommend a lighter sentence, but also asserted he had an "absolute right" to intervene. A post shared by Nydia Bertran Stone (@nydia_b_stone) on Oct 19, 2018 at 10:11am PDT. Dole was severely wounded in . Nydia Stone first met Roger Stone during one of President Ronald Reagans campaigns where she was working as a photographer. [242] Video evidence later surfaced of him telling Trump supporters on November 2, 2020, that they had "the right to violence. He has worked on the campaigns of Republican politicians such as Richard Nixon, Ronald Reagan, Jack Kemp, Bob Dole, and Donald Trump since the 1970s. Legal fees. [70] Specter withdrew early in the campaign season with less than 2% support. [180] Stone had testified to Congress that Credico was his WikiLeaks go-between, but prosecutors said this was a lie in order to protect Jerome Corsi. [24], Stone called Saudi Arabia "an enemy" and criticized Trump's visit to Riyadh in May 2017. [207] Stone again requested a new trial on February 14, after the jury foreperson of his trial publicly voiced support for the four prosecutors who withdrew from the Stone case. 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