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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsThe Man Investigating Donald Trumps Russia Connections Is Assembling a Murderers Row of Prosecutors
http://www.gq.com/story/robert-mueller-russia-investigation-teamThey include men and women responsible for bringing down Nixon, Enron, and the mafia.
As Donald Trump and company continue their audacious plan to humiliate each and every American with their constant incompetence, one man is pushing to find the truth about the president and his cronies' connections to Russia and their clumsy, foolish, shockingly transparent attempts to cover up any wrongdoing. That man is Robert Mueller, the special counsel appointed by the Justice Department to lead the investigation, and a new story from Politico paints an interesting portrait of the team Mueller is assembling. In fact, I'm pretty sure, if I were Donald Trump, that this news of this team would make me very, very nervous.
(Quote) He already has picked three former colleagues from his last job as a partner at the Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale & Dorr law firm: Aaron Zebley, who also was Muellers FBI chief of staff; Jeannie Rhee, a former DOJ attorney; and Quarles, who got his start in Washington some four decades ago as an assistant Watergate prosecutor.
But Muellers biggest hire to date was [Andrew] Weissmann, who is taking a leave from his current post leading the Justice Departments criminal fraud section. The two men have a long history together at the FBI, where Weissmann served as both the bureaus general counsel from 2011 to 2013 and as Muellers special counsel in 2005.
Weissmanns prosecution record includes overseeing the investigations into more than 30 people while running the Enron Task Force, including CEOs Kenneth Lay and Jeffrey Skilling. And while working in the U.S. attorneys office in the eastern district of New York, he tried more than 25 cases involving members of the Genovese, Colombo and Gambino crime families. (Unquote)
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The Man Investigating Donald Trumps Russia Connections Is Assembling a Murderers Row of Prosecutors (Original Post)
steve2470
Jun 2017
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MFM008
(19,818 posts)1. THATS
Why he's going to fire him.
He's terrified.
And he's gonna make it so much worse.
TheBlackAdder
(28,214 posts)2. Matt Helm always gets his man!
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