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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 is an American lawyer and former federal prosecutor who served as special counsel for the U.S. Department of Justice. His investigation examined the discovery and handling of classified documents from Joe Biden's vice presidency and Senate career, including materials found at the Penn Bid...
Rod Rosenstein is an American lawyer and former federal prosecutor who served as United States Deputy Attorney General from 2017 to 2019. While holding that position, he appointed Robert Mueller as special counsel in May 2017 after Attorney General Jeff Sessions recused himself from the investigatio...
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Institutionally significant Mueller appointment, but reputation remains divided by Comey memo role and Trump-era controversies.
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John Durham is an American prosecutor who served as the United States attorney for the District of Connecticut from 1999 to 2017. In 2020, Attorney General William Barr appointed him special counsel to investigate the origins and conduct of the FBI's investigation into links between Russia and the 2...
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