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Workload for the special counsels team now 17 prosecutors shows how hes conducting probe and what may come next.
By DARREN SAMUELSOHN 11/13/2017 05:05 AM EST
Special counsel Robert Mueller has not publicly uttered a single word about the direction of his high-stakes Russia probe. But the way hes assigned the 17 federal prosecutors on his team pieced together by POLITICO from court filings and interviews with lawyers familiar with the Russia cases gives insight into how hes conducting the investigation and what might be coming next.
His most experienced attorneys have discrete targets, such as former Donald Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort, former national security adviser Michael Flynn and current White House aides. Muellers longtime chief of staff is coordinating all the lawyers, including some who cover multiple topics. Select FBI special agents have been tapped to question witnesses.
Spearheading the criminal case against Manafort and his longtime deputy Rick Gates are three prosecutors schooled in money laundering, fraud, foreign bribery and organized crime: Andrew Weissmann, Greg Andres and Kyle Freeny.
And at the center of the investigation into Flynn is Jeannie Rhee, a former Obama-era deputy assistant attorney general who most recently worked with Mueller at the WilmerHale law firm and whose name has so far appeared only on publicly available court documents relating to the guilty plea of former Trump campaign adviser George Papadopoulos. Assisting Rhee on the Flynn case is Zainab Ahmad, an assistant U.S. attorney from New York with a specialty in prosecuting and collecting evidence in international criminal and terrorism cases and whose name hasnt yet appeared in Russia-related court filings at all.
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https://www.politico.com/story/2017/11/13/robert-mueller-russia-probe-organization-244789
PearliePoo2
(7,768 posts)It's an emergency!
They are doing what they promised. They are blowing everything up.
The State Department is (intentionally) nearly vacant!
They are gutting Federal Agencies that protect us. They are installing incompetent, biased judges that will have a forty year legacy.
TRAITORS are in our White House.
HELP...HURRY...PLEASE...IT'S AN EMERGENCY!
Irish_Dem
(47,402 posts)Wish they would step on the gas a bit more.