Posted on 03/18/2025 6:37:30 AM PDT by MtnClimber
Longtime deputy to Robert Mueller and key Trump-Russia investigator Andrew Weissmann is in the crosshairs of federal prosecutors.
For years, Andrew Weissmann was one of the most visible and vociferous critics of Donald Trump, as a former deputy to Special Prosecutor Robert Mueller and MSNBC legal analyst who wrote a book wondering if the president “paid bribes to foreign officials,” or had “Russian business deals in the works” when he ran for president.
Now Weissmann is facing hard questions of his own, about eerily similar themes.
In a pair of letters obtained by Racket, District of Columbia U.S. Attorney Ed Martin demanded to know why Weissmann ignored an alleged “conflict of interest” in signing off on a $4.5 billion settlement involving the Brazilian construction conglomerate Odebrecht in 2016, the largest such case in history. Weissmann had been (and is now) a partner at Jenner & Block, which represented a reputed key player in the story, a Canadian private equity firm called Brookfield Asset Management that until January was chaired by that country’s new Prime Minister, Mark Carney.
From Martin’s letter to Weissmann:
Under your leadership, the Fraud Section participated in investigations concerning Brookfield — your office called one case, the federal investigation of the Brazilian construction company Odebrecht, “the largest bribery case in history.” Somehow, Brookfield and its proven corrupt subsidiary, Rutas de Lima, were excluded from sanctions. After you ordered investigations into Brookfield closed, you then returned to Jenner & Block in 2020 as co-chairman of its investigations, compliance, and defense practice.
The letters sent Tuesday, March 11th to Weissmann and Jenner & Block co-managing partner Ishan Bhabha (PDFs at bottom of page):
Neither Weissmann nor Bhabha has responded to a request for comment. A spokesperson for Brookfield said the firm hadn’t heard of the letter, and asked for more information. We’ll update when any of these parties comment. Weissmann, it should be noted, over the years frequently implied Trump was a coward for failing to sit for interviews under oath or “even for an interview.”
The country’s biggest law firms, the politically active and highly compensated defenders of banks and takeover artists and weapons makers, look like the Trump administration’s next PR meal. Last Friday, Trump gave a speech at the Justice Department before Attorney General Pam Bondi and FBI head Kash Patel announcing a sweeping campaign against various “wrongs and abuses.” When he brought up lawyers and law firms, Weissmann’s was the first name he mentioned.
“The same scum you have been dealing with for years. Guys like Andrew Weissmann,” he said. “Deranged Jack Smith. There’s a guy named Norm Eisen, I don’t even know what he looks like. His name is Norm Eisen of CREW; he’s been after me for nine years… These are bad people.”
Trump’s personal feelings toward the lawyers who gamed the Steele letter or tried to jail him on various theories notwithstanding, the new letters should be understood part of a broader Trump campaign to investigate the legal sector, which is suddenly under heavy fire. A March 6th Executive Order targeting the Clinton-aligned firm Perkins Coie for its role in promulgating the Steele Dossier raised eyebrows, and was criticized by the National Review for moving too far in the direction of mere “payback.”...SNIP
Should have been done in President Trump’s first term, but four years sure gave him time to plan for the personnel he would need to do this.
Weissman is a degenerate!
Yes, and so is Jack Smith. Maybe they can be cell mates.
Works for me.
I wonder if pizza gate will be back in the news.
Weissman should have been disbarred decades ago. As I recall, he was one of the prosecutors who managed the false prosecution of Senator Ted Stevens in Alaska.
The effect of this was to give the Democrats a fillibuster-proof majority in the Senate during the first two years of the Obama Presidency.
https://mustreadalaska.com/mueller-and-the-political-assassination-of-ted-stevens/
Trump’s leaning on those who gamed the bogus Steele dossier
in an attempt to jail him on various invented theories.....
The Weissman letters are now part of a broader
Trump campaign to investigate the shady legal sector.
Andrew Weissmann and John Kroger are two of the most arrogant and deceitful people to have ever called themselves lawyers. Their history together has cost so many their lives and fortunes.
I would love to see those two and the other members of their “gang” used as an example to teach others what not to do as a prosecutor.
That's a good recall. He's a classic Democrat player all right, using strategic projection as a cover, for fun and profit.
Here is a good summation of the corrupt conduct in the Stevens case. I have often wondered about the plane crash he died in in 2010. One of the prosecutors hanged himself shortly after.
https://www.law.umich.edu/special/exoneration/Pages/casedetail.aspx?caseid=3663
Weissman was in the thick of all of this. In my opinion, he is corrupt to the core. With all the power at his disposal, he may have been able to hide his tracks. On the other hand, he may be arrogant enough not to have bothered. Judge Sullivan recommended criminal prosecution in 2010, but with Obama in power, nothing came of it.
Crosshairs? That's a provocative term. In the future, use "noose".
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Was not Weissmann the one who bankrupted the CPA firm for Enron which assessed damages were overturned by the SC?
Exactly and Kroger was one of his mates!!
Ask Sidney Powell about Weissmann. Read her book Licensed to Lie.
He was also involved in the Enron debacle.
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