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.
James Quarles is a former partner at the law firm WilmerHale and a former assistant special prosecutor for the Watergate Special Prosecution Force. Recently served as a partner at WilmerHale’s Litigation/Controversy Department. FEC records show Quarles has contributed more than $35,000 to Democratic House, Senate and presidential candidates since 1987, as well as $2,500 to Republican Jason Chaffetz in 2015 and $250 to Republican Sen. George Allen in 2005.
Jeannie Rhee is a former partner at the law firm WilmerHale, who has served in the Office of Legal Counsel and as an assistant U.S. attorney for the District of Columbia. “She’s a top financial and fraud prosecutor… having spent years at the U.S. Attorney’s Office in Washington,” ABC News contributor and former director of the National Counterterrorism Center Matt Olsen said. Mueller’s appointment of Rhee drew the ire of conservative commentators, owing in part to large sums she had donated to Democratic campaigns — $5,400 to Clinton in 2015 and 2016, and $4,800 to the Obama campaign in 2008 and 2011, as well as $4,800 in further donations to the Obama Victory Fund. Additionally, Rhee donated more than $3,000 to other Democratic causes since 2004. Conservatives also took aim at Rhee’s defense of the Clinton Foundation in a 2015 case after she left the Obama administration in 2011 and entered private practice at WilmerHale.
Brian Richardson, a former Supreme Court clerk under Justice Stephen Breyer, joined the special counsel in July 2017. He also served as a clerk for the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 2nd Circuit from 2013 to 2014.
Brandon Van Grack is an attorney on loan from the DOJ’s National Security Division. Grack served as counsel to the assistant attorney general at the National Security Division before joining the Eastern District of Virginia as a special assistant to the U.S. Attorney for National Security and International Crime. Van Grack gave about $300 to the Obama campaign and Victory Fund in 2008, in addition to other Democratic donations totaling less than $100 in 2012.