Re: Mueller - a friend who retired from the IRS just told me that

[elehhhhna]

A friend who retired from the IRS just told me that Mueller has added the two top IRS financial crimes specialists to his staff. These two people are experts in money laundering and international financial crimes.

[Not Ruth]

1. Is there a website where Mueller lists all of his staff and their credentials?

I would find it interesting.

[Wwcd]

4. Here's a list as of Sept. He has added more since then

These are the best in the business with a background the should make anyone of trump's associates more than nervous.

These people are the ones that bring down mob families.

https://www.google.com/amp/abcnews.go.com/amp/Politics/special-counsel-robert-mueller-assembled-team-16-seasoned/story%3fid=50186443

Special Counsel Mueller has assembled a team of 16 seasoned prosecutors
By ALEX HOSENBALL, MIKE LEVINE and PIERRE THOMAS
Sep 29, 2017, 5:18 PM ET

"In addition to a squad of agents from the FBI and the IRS, Mueller has 16 attorneys on staff, a spokesperson for Special Counsel Robert Mueller confirmed to ABC News, but only 14 of them have been identified publicly."

Here's a brief list of their remarkable bios, read more at link.

Zainab Ahmad is an attorney on detail from the Eastern District of New York. Ahmad made a name for herself prosecuting terrorist suspects in New York, including Lawal Babafemi and Najibullah Zazi, the would-be al-Qaeda subway bomber.
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Greg Andres, a former partner at Davis Polk, is a former deputy assistant attorney general in the Justice Department’s Criminal Division and an assistant U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of New York. Andres is a Justice Department veteran specializing in financial crimes.
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Rush Atkinson is an attorney on detail from the Criminal Division’s Fraud Section,
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Michael Dreeben is an appellate attorney on detail from the Office of the Solicitor General, where he’s served since 1995, including a stint under now-Supreme Court Justice Elena Kagan. He is thought to have an encyclopedic knowledge of criminal law and has argued over 100 cases in the Supreme Court.
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Kyle Freeney is an attorney on detail from the Criminal Division’s Money Laundering and Asset Recovery Section.
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Andrew Goldstein is an attorney on detail from the Southern District of New York. Preet Bharara’s Public Corruption chief, Andrew Goldstein received the Director’s Award from the Bharara in 2015.
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Adam Jed is an appellate attorney on detail from the Civil Division. A former clerk for U.S. Supreme Court Justice John Paul Stevens, Jed received the Attorney General’s Award for Exceptional Service in 2014.
(He won) a major victory for LGBT rights against the Defense of Marriage Act.
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Elizabeth Prelogar is an appellate attorney on detail from the Office of the Solicitor General. Prelogar reportedly joined the Mueller probe in June. She previously clerked for both Ruth Bader Ginsburg and Elena Kagan and earned an Overseas Press Club Award for work studying Russian media
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James Quarles is a former partner at WilmerHale and a former assistant special prosecutor for the Watergate Special Prosecution Force.
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Jeannie Rhee is a former partner at WilmerHale who has served in the Office of Legal Counsel and as an Assistant U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia. Mueller’s appointment of Rhee has brought the ire of conservative commentators, owing to her 2015 defense of the Hillary Clinton in a case regarding her emails,
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Brandon Van Grack is an attorney on detail from the National Security Division. He served as Counsel to the Assistant Attorney General at the National Security Division before joining the Eastern District of Virginia as a Special Assistant to the US Attorney for national security and international crime.

Andrew Weissmann is an attorney on detail from the Criminal Division’s Fraud Section, who has served as general counsel at the FBI under Director Mueller and as an Assistant U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of New York. Before joining the FBI, Weissmann oversaw the Enron Task Force from 2002 to 2005, including the prosecution of Jeffrey Skilling, Kenneth Lay and Andrew Fastow. Before that, Weissmann served in the Eastern District of New York’s U.S. Attorney’s Office, where the Justice Department says he was “instrumental in bringing to justice high-ranking members” of New York’s toughest crime families.
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Aaron Zebley is a former partner at WilmerHale who has previously served with Mr. Mueller at the FBI and has served as an Assistant U.S. Attorney in the Eastern District of Virginia.
"Before his time at the FBI, Zebley investigated national security matters for the US Attorney’s office in Alexandria, VA and as a FBI Special Agent in the Counterterrorism Division."
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Aaron Zelinsky is an attorney on detail from the District of Maryland. Before Zelinsky’s appointment to the Mueller team, he worked under the man who appointed Mueller special counsel – Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein.
"While in Maryland, Zelinsky earned an award for Excellence in Prosecution of Organized Crime. Additionally, Zelinsky has clerked for retired Justice John Paul Stevens and Justice Anthony Kennedy of the Supreme Court. H"
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Reading the bios of these few, should give a good idea as to where Mueller is going with his investigation.
Others have been added since this writing.

Anyone with Trump ties should be crapping themselves with even a couple of these attorneys eyeballing them.
There are others working behind the scenes such as Preet Bharara & NY AG Eric Schneiderman & their teams.
Best in the business of prosecuting & convicting International Organized Crime .

[radical noodle]

9. Good info WWCD

Welcome to DU.

[Wwcd]

16. Thanks. I'd be curled up in a sobbing heap if any of thes people were looking at me!

[rock]

18. Very nice Wwcd

Welcome to DU!

[Wwcd]

31. Hello!

Struggle some days to keep the faith, but this team assembled by Mueller helps. I re-read this list like a prayer anymore.

[vlyons]

34. They are going to nail Trump's butt to the wall

along with others in the Trump rogue gallery

[Me.]

2. Woeee Zowee

[shanny]

3. ...

I think the most likely charges will be found in this area. Collusion may be tough, but this shouldn't be. It's what the tRump empire is all about: dishonest and shady financial dealings.

[Wwcd]

22. True. Trump is so dirty, if they don't get him on one crime there're plenty more to choose from

Bye Trumpelicia 😚

[FakeNoose]

24. +++Yes this - Mueller probably doesn't care if Cheeto gets impeached

Mueller wants his ass in jail, and he's getting everything he needs to do it.
Nine ways to Sunday - down for the long count.

[Lucky Luciano]

41. Hope you're right. nt

[oasis]

5. Going to kick some major booty.

[librechik]

6. Seems like certain tax documents will be produced for them.

Saving the biggest for last!

[malaise]

7. Oh My!

Rec Nice

[Honeycombe8]

8. I think we already knew that, right? You might want to not identify...

your friends with that much specificity. Unless it's a lie. In which case, that's fine. (This admin. is going after leakers.)

[33taw]

10. I am confused with your post, who are you responding to?

[Honeycombe8]

14. ehhhhhhhh. Follow the line by my post to see what the post is responding to.

Responding to the OP.

[elehhhhna]

23. I don't think it's a leak, and I don't think it's a secret in certain circles that these folks have

I don't think it's a leak, and I don't think it's a secret in certain circles that these folks have been brought on board

[Wwcd]

32. Meuller offered this list himself. He knows Trumpets are squirming like maggots

in the sun whenever he announces a new addition to his team.

[33taw]

50. I realized that you were trying to respond to the OP, but the response does not make sense to me.

Also, what does ehhhhh mean? Are you upset that someone asked for clarification rather than just assume what you meant?

Personally, I believe the list was knowingly leaked. The lawyers are public contract employees, so their names are not that big of a secret.

Thanks

[machoneman]

11. I'm sure of a few things.

-Trump didn't think he would win.

-Because of that, his entire shady life history was laid bare.

-By now, not understanding with his limited NYC view of things, he thought at first this would all be brushed aside.

-Now, he's in a quandary he can't fix. No amount of lawyers can undo the ceaseless efforts of Federal prosecutors to uncover all sorts of misdeeds.

-His head must be exploding more and more each day, witnessed by the above post where Mueller's team almost daily releases not details but word of more and more hires that have been added, going after even the tiniest minutiae of his past and current dealings.

-Expect more Twitter eruptions as the noose closes on him, his family and his entire business empire.

Can't wait for multiple indictments to fly!!!!

[C Moon]

13. That's why I expect a Trump-created war attempt soon.

That's always the answer for the GOP when they are in power: sweep things under the carpet by starting war. And thousands of innocent people will pay the price.

[Honeycombe8]

52. Tax cuts, which will make all Repubs in country orgasmic and grateful to Trump. Then later a war.nt

[Honeycombe8]

17. Indictments by whom? The Trumpean DOJ with a henchman at the top (confirmd in committee by Dems)?

By Congressional committees with Republican henchmen at the helm? The FBI, with a Republican henchman at the top (confirmed by Democrats, no less)?

Mueller? Mueller alone, against several committees and Trump agencies, all stacked with henchmen and moles? Mueller, himself a Republican who was interviewed by Trump for the administration,notwithstanding his honorable reputation?

Maybe. Never say never. But I think there's a reason why Lindsay Graham and others keep referring to the next three years of Trump's term and the 2020 election.

I continue to hope, though. All is not lost yet.

[DownriverDem]

20. Questions

Does Mueller have indictment power? If not, who does? Are they just trump picks?

[bigbrother05]

21. The grand juries can indict and Mueller is a Special Prosecutor

[Wwcd]

25. Reports that Meuller has assembled at least 7 GJ's around the country

, to handle the indictments. NY, Miami, CA, (maybe AZ) , etc.

I am putting full faith in Meuller, since I know absolutely nothing next to his fine skilled team.

[Bernardo de La Paz]

29. Any credible link?

I have not heard this and not sure I can believe it.

[Bernardo de La Paz]

28. I guess Federal and state grand juries are separate. Or can one indict at both levels?

[Wwcd]

35. I don't have a lot of knowledge as to that area. Perhaps someone here can answer that.

Its an interesting question.

I was particularly pleased to read the bio on this addition:

Kyle Freeney is an attorney on detail from the Criminal Division’s Money Laundering and Asset Recovery Section. In 2016, she was part of a Department of Justice team seeking to recover over $1 billion from an alleged corrupt Malaysian sovereign wealth fund.

"ASSET RECOVERY " !!! You hear that Trump!!

As in, You're gonna lose your Ass! Cuz you're an Ass!

[Wwcd]

51. I believe the GJ is seated where the crime was possibly comitted

Since this is multi State, why we see several jurisdictions out of NY.
My guess is the other States would be where Trump owns or has sold properties that evidence shows RICO, tax issues or whatever.

This is my best guess as to how it works

[bigbrother05]

53. Yes, there are different/separate laws for each that could yield indictments

Many have noted that even if Dotard pardons everyone, it will only apply to Federal charges, not state level ones.

Mueller has GJs in NYC & DC US Districts for sure. Possible that others could be in other Districts in VA & FL where we know of campaign/real estate activities. NY outside of NYC, MD, NJ, & PA are other possibilities as well. Again, states hosting Trump properties could come in with money laundering, racketeering, conspiracy, etc. charges going back to the statute of limitations for the allegations.

[PoindexterOglethorpe]

26. His limited NYC view of things.

That's important to understand about him. With all due respect to NYC residents (and I love that city, have visited it less often than I'd like, and I'd actually love to live there for a year if I could) those who have lived their entire lives there simply do not understand to what extent they have a narrow view of things. And Trump is very much the worst of that kind, because he has zero interest in anything outside himself, doesn't feel that he needs to learn anything ever, and has gotten away with his bullying his entire life.

I just hope that in the end Mueller and his team will actually bring about indictments. I am so afraid that this is going to be another huge disappointment.

[murielm99]

40. That is very true of New Yorkers.

I love the city, too. I went to college with people who lived there. My brother lived and worked there for about eight years.

They accuse the rest of us of being provincial. Actually, they are. It is funny to watch and listen to some of them when they get out into the other parts of the country. Mostly, they are good people. They must be! Look at how much they despise trump.

[PoindexterOglethorpe]

42. It's been my observation that they are vastly more

provincial than many others.

They think that they have everything possible in the city. Well, they do have every kind of ethnic food, but they don't have forests, they don't have vast prairies or canyons or mountains. They don't have small towns that are miles from anywhere.

Again, I do love NYC and would like to spend more time there, and I can understand why people might want to live there permanently, but it is not the center of the universe and does not have absolutely everything.

I've lived in a number of different places in my life, and I'm very glad I have. I can compare and contrast different cities, different parts of the country. Anyone who has only lived in one or two places can't do that.

[VaBchTgerLily]

12. YAY-lets hope they find the smoking gun

[FakeNoose]

27. I'm pretty sure Mueller already has the evidence he needs

Mueller isn't working to impeach Trump. He's bringing him to justice and putting him in jail.
Cheeto has been breaking laws his whole career and hiding behind an army of lawyers.

This is going to be so much fun to watch!

[wryter2000]

15. Good news

But when is something going to come of this? Do we have to wait until a nuclear bomb lands on Guam?

[DownriverDem]

19. Yes, but

Will the repubs end the investigation? That's what I am concerned about. All we hear is that folks are tired of hearing about trump and the Russians. Of course this comes from trump and his toadies.

[Wwcd]

30. From what I read, there won't be enough Repubs left in Congress to protect Trump

Pence, Ryan, McConnell, Goodlatte, Nunes, etc, when Mueller is ready to issue the indictments he has waiting.
I believe his mission is to prove the whole sorry lot of them at one time.
No pardons, no cover left to hide.

Last night reading reports that initial indictments will be plenty & all at the same time, the rest of the bunch could easily take up to two years.

There are so many involved & crimes are varied & based on international intel, so its a long process.
No doubt

[murielm99]

45. I wonder if people like Corker and Flake

are leaving because they are unwilling to protect 45 et al. They were loyal, conservative, but not criminals. But they have limits to what they will do.

[Wwcd]

46. Quite possibly the case. Seems they are wavering on offering loyalty or cutting the cord

We don't know the consequences Trump or even Bannon holds over disloyalty but I'm sure Corker & Flake know!

Trump prides himself in destroying people.
Bannon is a backstabbing lunatic.

[whathehell]

49. I find their leaving and stated reasons for doing so encouraging

When major Repubs start turning n him, I think it's he beginning of the end for him.

[LiberalLovinLug]

33. I don't think they have the cojones

Although it wouldn't shock me if they tried.

Sometimes I do wonder if Mueller is milking this, stretching this out, being a loyal Republican. Much like Comey did with Clintons email investigation. In order for his Republican cohorts in the House and Senate to do as much damage as they can to the country first using Trump as cover. But my paranoia sensibilities are easily triggered these days.

But I think they are all waiting, like us, for Muellers investigation to finish. And then depending on what comes of that when the dust settles. If Mueller can only manage to pin the wrongdoing on a few bad apples that surrounded Donald they will argue that poor Donald was a newbie and didn't quite know the rules, was taken advantage of etc.. and so should be vindicated. And further, they, along with Trump, will go on the offensive and declare that this proves it was all a witch hunt (by Soros, the Clintons, and the secret Democrat controlled "deep state"..)

And only if and when Trump is irredeemably and politically tarnished with solid case(s) of criminal activity, will they change course. "But but but, we had NO idea DT was so terrible!"

[Sunlei]

38. I hear you. We'll have, President "I knew nothing" Pence & VP "He never listened to me" Ryan.

Americans will still be screwed for decades.

[Wwcd]

36. I think that the closer Meuller gets, the louder trump's tantrum will become.

They aren't giving up this power they have without a fight to the bitter end.

Ignore the fit & expect more of "nothing to see hear", propaganda.
Just because that stuff worked to get them in power, it doesn't mean it'll work in keeping them there.

[Sunlei]

37. oh great the IRS vs (R)ichie Riches adds 20 years time to investigation.

[Scruffy1]

39. ho hum

At the rate they are going they should have an ambiguous report ready in about 2020.

[BigmanPigman]

43. Can they nail Nunes, Ryan, McConnell and Rohrabacher too?

[The Wizard]

44. Follow the money

Thus spake Deep Throat.

[Juliusseizure]

47. He better hurry the fuck up

Not a criticism, but if the GOP retains majorities and a bunch of Trump loyalists get elected, they'll just put everything he produces in a shredder. It will all be for naught.

If Trump consolidates power, and 1 or 2 very elderly Supreme Court justices are replaced, democracy is finished. McConnell's already packing the federal courts.

[Mike Niendorff]

48. Seriously.

And let's also not forget that even the best case scenarios still rely on legit voter rolls and a legit vote-count in 2018 -- which I think are *very* questionable at this point.

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