Justice League: Meet The Veteran Prosecutors Powering The Russia Probe

[deminks]

http://talkingpointsmemo.com/dc/special-counsel-probe-beefs-up-bigly?utm_content=buffer64274&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter.com&utm_campaign=buffer

The powerhouse team of lawyers assigned to the multi-pronged federal investigation into Russia’s interference in the 2016 election has metastasized to include 15 members.

Plucked from the Justice Department and white-collar law firms by special counsel Robert Mueller, the attorneys boast years of experience prosecuting cases involving national security, fraud, money laundering, cybercrime and espionage. There are experts in witness-flipping, Russia, organized crime and public corruption. Several have worked with Mueller in the past.

Though the team is holed up away from the public eye in their office in the Patrick Henry Building on Washington, D.C.’s D Street, their previous work experience offers a window into where the investigation into Russia’s attempts to influence the election outcome—and whether any members of the Trump campaign assisted that effort or committed any financial crimes—could be headed.

Peter Carr, a spokesman for the special counsel, confirmed that the following 13 lawyers have been publicly identified out of the 15-member team, and told TPM that more were “in the pipeline.”

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Money laundering, fraud, counterterrorism, counterespionage, cybercrime, organized crime, gang crime, one fluent in Russian. Sounds like all the expertise is there. No wonder the Orange One wants it shut down.

[Botany]

1. What a team

ELIZABETH PRELOGAR

An assistant to the solicitor general’s office, Prelogar previously clerked for Supreme Court justices Ruth Bader Ginsburg and Elena Kagan and worked in private practice at Hogan Lovells.

She appears to be fluent in Russian from her undergraduate and graduate studies, and served as a Fulbright Scholar in Russia, as the National Law Journal reported.

[Gothmog]

2. You do not assemble this much legal talent without intending to get a few indictments

I am very impressed with this legal team