Mueller, team members gave up million-dollar jobs to join investigation.

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Mueller, team members gave up million-dollar jobs to join investigation. @mattzap with the scoop on SC disclosures.

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Mueller, several team members gave up million-dollar jobs to work on special counsel investigation

By Matt Zapotosky August 8 at 9:07 PM

Robert S. Mueller III left a $3.4 million partner job in the white-shoe law firm WilmerHale, where he worked for clients such as Facebook, Apple, Sony and the NFL, to serve as the special counsel overseeing the law enforcement investigation into whether the Kremlin and the Trump campaign coordinated to impact the 2016 election, according to documents released Tuesday.

Mueller’s public financial disclosure — along with those of seven members of his team — was released after a request from The Washington Post. The document offers a glimpse into whom the special counsel and the lawyers he has hired have worked for and where they have made and invested their money. ... They are likely to be closely scrutinized by allies of President Trump, who has criticized Mueller and his team as having conflicts of interest.

The documents show that several lawyers on the team, particularly those who came from the private sector, left behind substantial salaries to work on the Russia case. James L. Quarles III, who left WilmerHale with Mueller, drew more than $5.8 million from his partnership there. Jeannie Rhee, another partner, drew more than $2 million, and Aaron Zebley, who was Mueller’s chief of staff at the FBI and also worked with him at WilmerHale, drew more than $1.4 million.

It is unclear precisely how much each is getting paid to work on the Russia investigation — the special counsel’s office has declined to make its budget proposal public — though it is probably a far cry from their private-sector work.
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Matt Zapotosky covers the Justice Department for the Washington Post's National Security team. Follow @mattzap

[IndieRick]

1. What to take from this "revelation"

These lawyers, typically billing in the high three to low four figures per hour, some partners as it was stated, in top firms as well thus bringing even more income to the table , are possibly, but not proven, to be giving up anything. Certainly Mueller's leading this investigation in no way cancels his partnership, nor that of his associates either. Further no reference is made as to what they are being paid by the government for their efforts in this important investigation. Surely they are being paid.

I am confused, frankly, and I hasten to add that this may be due to my own failings, as to the relevance of this article.

[NightWatcher]

2. And in a few months they'll return to those firms and get to add "successfully impeached trump"

to their business cards and websites.

This won't take long, they'll toast trump like a marshmallow, and then return to their day jobs.

[OnDoutside]

3. One may question their motives, but the stark fact is that they are all that is between gathering

enough evidence to force the Republicans into impeaching Trump, and the step by step takedown of Democracy as you know it. If Trump gets away with this, there is no end to what the Trump backers could do next.

[Stuart G]

4. I assume that Mueller has hired the "best" in various fields of investigation

Fields like, "money laundering".."income disclosure" "interactions with other countries to the detriment of the U.S.A....etc. etc. etc. The "best" don't come cheap. At his "best" was Michael Jordan "cheap"?

Mueller wants the best, and he wants to win and get the "criminals". It won't be pretty.

Mueller will win, and he will get the criminals. It may take time, but he will get the criminals

and I must add this: This is not Mueller's first shot at getting criminals...He has done this before.

[Motley13]

5. info on Mueller team members

http://www.businessinsider.com/lawyers-robert-mueller-hired-for-the-trump-russia-investigation-2017-6/#michael-dreeben-1


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