Another prosecutor joins Trump-Russia probe
Source: Politico
Kyle Freeny jumps to Mueller staff from money laundering unit.
By JOSH GERSTEIN 09/15/2017 11:47 PM EDT
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.
Read more: http://www.politico.com/story/2017/09/15/another-prosecutor-joins-trump-russia-investigation-242794?lo=ap_d1
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(7,393 posts)Dave Starsky
(5,914 posts)trusty elf
(7,393 posts)every day that goes by this misadministration wreaks more and more havoc.
Dave Starsky
(5,914 posts)They can't afford to fuck a single thing up. Keep in mind that when the shit gets real, EVERY media outlet (not just the usual RW nutjobs) are going to go into 24/7 assault mode to try to discredit Mueller and his team as they prop up the shitgibbon. The investigators absolutely MUST put together an airtight case that addresses every single aspect of Russian shenanigans. The stakes are high, and they will not get another shot at this.
Scarsdale
(9,426 posts)Too bad Two Scoops authority is not taken away before WWIII starts. He will do something BIGLY to take attention away from these investigations.
FakeNoose
(32,639 posts)If Cheeto looks like he's going to push the nuke button, ol' General Kelly will take out his gun and shoot him.
Or one of the other generals will.
They know he's crazy and they won't let him start World War 3.
Scarsdale
(9,426 posts)exposing him for the idiot that he is, and saving the country??