He’s handing off cases to spread the aircraft. Think Pearl Harbor. You take him out his little spiders keep working.
He’s handing off these cases because his team has looked like a bunch of amateurs in the one “Russian collusion” case where a Russian defendant is actually contesting the charges.
He’s dumping these cases before it becomes obvious that they’re losers.
He gets the glory for initiating them, some other poor slob is left holding the bag when it all goes south.
A derivative of the “greater fool” theory.
<><>"...proves that little if any of what Mueller's team has generated so far is linked to the special counsel's mandate," said Former Prosecutor 1. "Everything that is public so far could, should and typically is handled by either US Attorney offices of jurisdiction; National Security Division attorneys, or even Criminal Division attorneys at Main Justice."
<><>"Mueller doesn't have anything on collusion," said Former Prosecutor 2. "...we would have seen it. I don't see anything that looks like a crime lurking — maybe he's got eight indictments under seal, but to me, it makes no sense. All of this says to me there is no there there."
<><>Former Prosecutor 3 said the investigations passed off — Cohen and Butina — indicate the subject matter is "outside [Mueller's] jurisdiction."
So there.
With any luck Mueller will spend his retirement checks at the prison px.
Short Answer: Because there's no there, there.
In April, Mueller referred an investigation of close Trump associate Michael Cohen to federal prosecutors in New York. This month, the U.S. attorney in Washington — not Mueller — indicted Maria Butina on charges of being an unregistered Russian agent. And also this month, when Mueller charged 12 Russian intelligence officers with hacking Democratic Party and Clinton campaign offices, he immediately turned the case over to the Justice Department's National Security Division for prosecution.
Mueller started transferring cases when he decided to grandstand on the first bunch of Russian cybertrolls and a Russian company that did not exist (Concord Catering) at the time of the alleged collusion. Mueller is thought to have done these indictments as a publicity stunt but he got his rear kicked by the Russian firm showing up in a US Court with their lawyers demanding the evidence used by Mueller against them. That wasn't supposed to happen.
So Mueller had three choices:
1. Turn over the evidence and suffer humiliation for how flimsy it was (Mueller said it would harm national security).
2. Withdraw the case, which would be a huge embarrassment to Mueller and his investigation and would most certainly be followed by calls from Congress to shut his office down.
3. Transfer the cases to other DOJ attorneys, run away, and escape blame.
Mueller chose No. 3 and is doing the same with other flimsy cases. His purpose has been to slow down Trump from indicting Rosenstein and others in the illegal spying of the President and to monitor what the President's team is doing in regards to the Hillary and DNC emails and servers as well as other things.
He’s burying them so no one can find out “there’s no there, there”. But the public impressions caused by the accusations remain,
I am guessing the lawyers working from r Meuller know the accused are innocent. They are willing to play the indictment game because they can claim they had no role. However, if they prosecute based on false or missleading evidence, they will be in the crime up to their necks. Hence, Meuller’s lawyers are keeping their hands clean. New prosecutors from other departments won’t know the evidence is false.
I believe that Mueller is worried that criminal charges will be thrown out of court for this reason and he will have no case. He's therefore casting off criminal charges for the Justice Department to prosecute. There is reason to believe that even then, all the charges can be dismissed.
Let someone else take the losses that come later...his political work is done just by making indictments. He’s rallying the Democrat base of crazies, taking over weekend news cycles, creating narratives, discouraging the lukewarm Republican voters. His work is entirely political, there’s no law enforcement aspect whatsoever.
The most horrifying fact in this whole matter is...the media KNEW ABOUT IT ALL THE TIME.
In the beginning, I wondered why they kept asking about Carter Page. Nobody knew him, he meant nothing, yet they kept asking Spicer …”what about Carter Page?”
I totally believe media knew all along, but prayed that we would never learn the truth.
If the bastids pray at all.
Dumping them to agencies that do not take the case to court, because there is no evidence. They learned that lesson with the first phony Russian indictments. They were not expected to be challenged and suffer disclosure of their evidence.
To give more of his pals taxpayer 100k+ income?