Uzo Asonye, currently an assistant U.S. attorney in the Eastern District of Virginia, joined the special counsel’s office to serve as its local counsel in the trial of Trump’s former campaign chairman Paul Manafort, located in Eastern District of Virginia. According to his LinkedIn page, Asonye also worked in the White Collar Defense and Corporate Investigations Group of the law firm O’Melveny and Myers. Federal Elections Commission (FEC) records show that Asonye donated $800 to the Clinton campaign in 2008. Asonye has previously prosecuted embezzlement and bribery cases, amongst others, including the successful 2016 prosecution of a former U.S. contractor based in the Embassy in Baghdad charged with accepting cash payments to gain electrical construction contracts in Iraq.
Rush Atkinson is an attorney on detail from the DOJ’s Criminal Division’s Securities and Financial Fraud Unit, where he’s worked as a trial attorney for the past four and a half years according to his LinkedIn Account. In 2016, Atkinson prosecuted a multimillion-dollar fraud case against the heads of a public charter flight company.
Ryan Dickey is a longtime federal prosecutor who specializes in cybercrimes and fraud. Dickey worked for the Justice Department for several years and joined the Mueller team last November. He most recently served in the criminal division’s Computer Crime and Intellectual Property Section. Most famously, Dickey helped prosecute the Romanian hacker “Guccifer” in 2016. The Romanian hacker is often confused with “Guccifer 2.0,” a different hacker who allegedly hacked the Democratic National Committee in 2016. Guccifer pleaded guilty to hacking into the emails and social media accounts of numerous high-profile victims, including former Secretary of State Colin Powell and family members of former President George W. Bush.
Kyle Freeny is an attorney on detail from the DOJ’s Criminal Division’s Money Laundering and Asset Recovery Section. In 2016, she was part of a Justice Department team seeking to recover over $1 billion from an alleged corrupt Malaysian sovereign wealth fund. Freeny gave $250 to Obama’s campaign in 2008, $300 to Obama’s campaign in 2012, and $250 to Clinton’s campaign in 2016.
Andrew Goldstein is an attorney on loan from the Southern District of New York, where he served as former U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara’s Public Corruption chief, and received the Director’s Award from the Bharara in 2015. Goldstein investigated and prosecuted the CityTime case, which the Department of Justice then referred to as “the largest municipal fraud and kickback scheme in history.” Goldstein received further praise from Bharara upon his June appointment to the Mueller probe, when Bharara tweeted, “Best of best in every way. Fair, tough, smart.” Goldstein donated more than $750 to Obama’s 2012 campaign and more than $2,800 to Obama’s 2008 campaign.
Adam Jed is an appellate attorney on detail from the DOJ’s Civil Division. A former clerk for U.S. Supreme Court Justice John Paul Stevens, Jed received the Attorney General’s Award for Exceptional Service in 2014, following his work on the successful implementation of the Supreme Court’s decision that struck down the Defense of Marriage Act, a law barring the federal government from recognizing same-sex marriages legalized by the states.
Scott Meisler joined the special counsel in June 2017, according to Mueller spokesman Peter Carr. Meisler joined the special counsel in June 2017. Prior to that, he had worked as an appellate attorney for the Department of Justice’s criminal division since 2009. During that he spent a year as the department’s assistant solicitor general, from April 2015 to April 2016. Meisler has experience in cases that involve search warrants & seizures, wiretapping, mail fraud, wire fraud and money laundering.