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kennetha

(3,666 posts) Sat Mar 23, 2019, 08:38 AM Mar 2019

Mueller May Be Done, But Game is Still On

Perhaps the Mueller probe was always intended to be the opening gambit in an elaborate chess game. The defense has been set, many of the opponents pieces — Manafort, Flynn, Gates, Cohen and various pawns — have been taken, that is indicted, control of the board has been secured through expert positioning of our own knights and bishops and pawns — that is, the Southern District and various other prosecutorial agencies attorneys. Now it is time to bring the Queen — Main Justice— into the act for the final assault that will checkmate the Mad King, er that is President.

Bottom line, though Mueller may be done, the game is very much still on!

As evidence of this conjecture, see:

Even as the special counsel, Robert S. Mueller III, submitted his confidential report to the Justice Department on Friday, federal and state prosecutors are pursuing about a dozen other investigations that largely grew out of his work, all but ensuring that a legal threat will continue to loom over the Trump presidency.

Most of the investigations focus on President Trump or his family business or a cadre of his advisers and associates, according to court records and interviews with people briefed on the investigations. They are being conducted by officials from Los Angeles to Brooklyn, with about half of them being run by the United States attorney’s office in Manhattan.

Unlike Mr. Mueller, whose mandate was largely focused on any links between the Trump campaign and the Russian government’s interference in the 2016 presidential election, the federal prosecutors in Manhattan take an expansive view of their jurisdiction. That authority has enabled them, along with F.B.I. agents, to scrutinize a broader orbit around the president, including his family business.

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/03/23/us/trump-investigations-new-york.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share