What crimes was Roger Stone convicted of and what were the specific charges?

1. The headline convictions: what the jury found

A federal jury returned guilty verdicts against Stone on all seven counts in the indictment: one count of obstruction of an official proceeding, five counts of making false statements to Congress, and one count of witness tampering — the Justice Department summarized those convictions as obstructing a congressional investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 election and related offenses ^{[1] [3] [2]}.

2. Obstruction explained in the indictment

The single obstruction count charged Stone with obstructing an official proceeding — namely, the House Intelligence Committee’s inquiry into Russian interference in 2016 — by concealing and misrepresenting his communications and role, conduct prosecutors said was intended to impede that congressional investigation ^{[3] [1]}.

3. The five false-statement counts: lying to Congress about a “back-channel” and communications

The five counts of making false statements stemmed from Stone’s sworn testimony to the House Intelligence Committee in September 2017, in which prosecutors allege he lied about the identity and nature of a person he described as his “back-channel” to WikiLeaks, whether he had asked that intermediary to act on his behalf, and whether he had written communications with that person or discussed them with Trump-campaign associates ^{[3] [1]}.

4. Witness tampering: threats, pressure and the Credico testimony

The witness-tampering conviction centered on Stone’s efforts to influence and intimidate Randy Credico, a witness before the Committee, including urging Credico to corroborate a false story, to claim inability to remember events, or to invoke the Fifth Amendment, and prosecutors cited threatening comments (including a reference to Credico’s therapy dog) that they say were intended to prevent truthful testimony ^{[1] [8]}.

5. Sentence, commutation and political context

Judge Amy Berman Jackson sentenced Stone to 40 months in prison in February 2020 after the jury’s guilty verdict ^[5]; days before Stone was to report to prison President Trump commuted his sentence in July 2020 (leaving the convictions intact) and later issued a full pardon language is reported in public sources, a move that Stone’s supporters hailed while critics said it reflected political interference ^{[4] [6] [7]}. Stone consistently has denied wrongdoing and his defenders frame the prosecution as part of a broader “Russia hoax” narrative, while prosecutors and the trial record portrayed his conduct as direct efforts to conceal facts from Congress and obstruct a vital inquiry ^{[6] [9] [1]}.

6. Alternate perspectives and the evidentiary focus

Coverage and commentary diverge sharply: prosecutors and mainstream outlets emphasized the specific statutory violations and the trial evidence showing false testimony and intimidation ^{[1] [10]}, while Stone and sympathetic commentators characterize the case as politically driven and dispute broader implications about “collusion” — the court record, however, is narrow in scope and the convictions rest on discrete actions (false statements, obstruction, tampering) rather than a standalone criminal conspiracy charge tying Stone to a larger plot ^{[9] [1]}. Sources used in this account are the Justice Department’s press release and court-centered reporting summarized by FactCheck, AP, PBS and major news outlets, which consistently identify the same seven counts as the basis for Stone’s conviction ^{[3] [1] [10] [11]}.