Robert Mueller gets Justice Department approval to lead the probe, despite
his having retired from a law firm that has represented some of the possible subjects of the investigation. The law firm has over 1000 lawyers, and Mueller himself has never represented anyone involved in the investigation.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/justice-dept-ethics-experts-approve-muellers-leadership-of-russia-probe/2017/05/23/3e19cf46-3fc4-11e7-adba-394ee67a7582_story.html?tid=a_inl&utm_term=.cdc8b746c2bf
Justice Department ethics experts have concluded that newly appointed special counsel Robert S. Mueller III can oversee the investigation into possible coordination between the Trump campaign and the Kremlin during the 2016 presidential election — even though his former law firm represents several people who could be caught up in the matter, authorities announced Tuesday.
In an email, Justice Department spokeswoman Sarah Isgur Flores said ethics officials had reviewed the case and “determined that Mr. Mueller’s participation in the matters assigned to him is appropriate.” She said the officials had considered Mueller’s professional obligations and those imposed by government ethics regulations.
Mueller, a former FBI director, had worked for the past three years in the Washington office of WilmerHale, a prominent law firm whose lawyers represent President Trump’s former campaign chairman Paul Manafort, Trump’s daughter Ivanka and the president’s son-in-law, Jared Kushner. Mueller resigned from the firm after Deputy Attorney General Rod J. Rosenstein appointed him last week to oversee the investigation of Russian meddling in the election.
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