Roger Stone: prosecutors quit after DoJ signals plan to reduce sentence

• Department appears to lean on prosecutors for shorter term
• Trump tweeted: 'Cannot allow this miscarriage of justice!'

Four lawyers who prosecuted political operative Roger Stone have resigned in protest after their sentencing recommendation was overruled and slashed by Donald Trump's justice department.

Aaron Zelinsky, Jonathan Kravis, Adam Jed and Michael Marando quit the case while Democrats demanded an independent investigation into what they described as a dangerously politicised and corrupt justice department.