New prosecutor, who had worked on DOJ's "highest-profile money laundering case," joins Team Mueller

[Miles Archer]

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Three prosecutors working for Trump-Russia Special Counsel Robert Mueller, Adam Jed, Andrew Weissman and Kyle Freeny, depart U.S. District Court in Washington Friday. | Josh Gerstein/POLITICO

Another prosecutor joins Trump-Russia probe
Kyle Freeny jumps to Mueller staff from money laundering unit.
By JOSH GERSTEIN 09/15/2017 11:47 PM EDT Updated 09/16/2017 10:47 AM EDT

http://www.politico.com/story/2017/09/15/another-prosecutor-joins-trump-russia-investigation-242794?lo=ap_d1

An attorney working on the Justice Department's highest-profile money laundering case recently transferred off that assignment in order to join the staff of the special prosecutor investigating the Trump campaign's potential ties to Russia, POLITICO has learned.

Attorney Kyle Freeny was among the prosecutors on hand Friday as a spokesman for former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort, Jason Maloni, testified before a grand jury at federal court in Washington.

Freeny, whose assignment to Special Counsel Robert Mueller's staff has not been previously reported, is the 17th lawyer known to be working with the former FBI chief on the investigation into Russian meddling in the 2016 presidential election. She departed from the courthouse Friday with two other members of Mueller's squad: former Criminal Division chief and Enron prosecutor Andrew Weissman and Civil Division appellate attorney Adam Jed, a former clerk to Supreme Court Justice John Paul Stevens.

Before being detailed to Mueller's team, Freeny was shepherding the Justice Department's headline-grabbing effort to seize the profits from the film "The Wolf of Wall Street" on grounds that the film was financed with assets looted from the Malaysian government.

[beachbum bob]

1. the elephant in the room has always led back to trump and the russian mob money laundering ops

that have run for years......big reason why tax returns not released and trump runs his businesses thru his personal tax returns

[NBachers]

2. Are you sure that Kyle Feeny is a guy?

[Miles Archer]

3. OOOOPS, good catch

I went to the trouble of adding the photo AND the caption, but didn't bother matching up the people in it.

Fixed now.

I don't think I've ever known a female "Kyle." First time for everything, I guess.