Posted on 11/13/2017 1:00:19 PM PST by mojito
Special counsel Robert Mueller has not publicly uttered a single word about the direction of his high-stakes Russia probe.
But the way he’s 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 he’s conducting the investigation and what might be 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. Mueller’s 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 hasn’t yet appeared in Russia-related court filings.
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That the charges against Gen. Flynn are being pursued by an 0bama hack comes as no surprise.
Weasel Mueller will be indicting H->! any day now.
I’m willing to bet, if Hillary Clinton still had a law license, she’d be on the Mueller team of investigators.
Someone at Politico had a wet dream last night.
Probably because there's no real evidence that they are investigating them for anything. They clearlly could have already charged Tony Podesta for being guilty of one of the exact same crimes Manafort is accused of, yet they didn't. Que for the basement dwellers to rise up and insist he's already been arrested and Hillary is wearing a electronic handcuff on her ankle.
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What Dems have been indicted? President Trump has called Mueller's investigation a "Democratic Hit Job" on the President, so I'm interested if you think we should start questioning what Trump is telling us. Thanks.
Meh. Trump should appoint Roy Moore special prosecutor to drain the swamp, and suggest Sessions run for his own old seat.
It’s called diversion and deception.
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