TRUMP-RUSSIA INVESTIGATION FAR FROM OVER AS MUELLER ADDS VETERAN CYBER PROSECUTOR TO HIS TEAM

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The team investigating the Trump campaign's alleged Russia ties has added a veteran cyber prosecutor—the latest sign that the investigation is far from over, contrary to what President Donald Trump's lawyer has told him.

Ryan Dickey was re-assigned from the Justice Department's computer crime and intellectual property division to Mueller’s team in early November, Mueller spokesman Peter Carr confirmed to Newsweek on Wednesday.



Dickey has previously served as an assistant U.S. attorney in Virginia and has investigated several high-profile computer crime cases. In 2016, Dickey helped prosecute the Romanian hacker Marcel Lazar, who was known as "Guccifer." That same year, a Russian hacking group rebooted Lazar's moniker as "Guccifer 2.0" and took credit for hacking the Democratic National Convention. The U.S. intelligence community, however, later determined the Russian spy agency GRU had used that name to release hacked data.


Andrew Wright, a law professor at Savannah Law School and associate counsel for former President Barack Obama, said he expected Mueller would bolster his team with a cyber expert at some point, since Russia's cyber attacks on the 2016 election are so central to the inquiry.

"I have always thought that this would require a significant cyber expertise," Wright, who is not involved in the Mueller case, told Newsweek.

"The Russian portion of this is much more massive, much more multi-faceted and going to require a lot more work," he added.


http://www.newsweek.com/trump-russia-mueller-investigation-cyber-777557