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Andrew Weissmann is an American attorney who served as a lead prosecutor on Robert Mueller's Special Counsel investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 election. Previously, he directed the FBI's organized crime section and led the Enron Task Force, securing convictions against several form...
Robert Mueller is an American lawyer and government official who served as the sixth Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) from 2001 to 2013. Following his tenure at the FBI, he was appointed as Special Counsel for the United States Department of Justice from 2017 to 2019. In this ca...
Patrick J. Fitzgerald is an American attorney who served as United States Attorney for the Northern District of Illinois from 2001 to 2012. He also acted as special counsel in the investigation into the disclosure of CIA officer Valerie Plame's identity, which led to the prosecution and 2007 convict...
Jack Smith is an American lawyer and prosecutor who served as Special Counsel for the United States Department of Justice, appointed in November 2022. In 2023, he secured federal indictments against former President Donald Trump on charges related to the retention of classified documents and efforts...
Robert Hur served as Special Counsel and in 2024 issued a report on President Biden's handling of classified documents, concluding charges were not warranted.
U.S. Deputy Attorney General (2017–2019) who appointed Special Counsel Robert Mueller in May 2017 to investigate Russian interference in the 2016 U.S. presidential election.
John Durham served as U.S. Attorney for Connecticut and as Special Counsel appointed in 2020 to investigate the origins of the FBI's Russia investigation.
