Andrew Weissmann, Muellers Legal Pit Bull

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Andrew Weissmann, second from left, and other members of Robert S. Mueller III’s legal team outside the United States Courthouse in Washington in September.

WASHINGTON — The target was a New York City titan — plain-spoken but Teflon, irresistible to the tabloids and insistent upon loyalty from his associates.

The defendant, Vincent “the Chin” Gigante, had accumulated power as the head of the Genovese crime family, feigning insanity to conceal his guilt. A prosecutor in Brooklyn was at last prepared to cut him down, using witnesses the government had flipped.

“He couldn’t stop people from talking about him,” the prosecutor, Andrew Weissmann, said of Mr. Gigante, addressing jurors at the end of a career-making federal court case in 1997. “When there’s a large organization to run, you cannot erase yourself from the minds, and more important the tongues, of your conspirators.”

Two decades later, Mr. Weissmann has turned his attention to a more prominent set of prospective conspirators: He is a top lieutenant to Robert S. Mueller III on the special counsel investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 election and possible links to the Trump campaign. Significantly, Mr. Weissmann is an expert in converting defendants into collaborators — with either tactical brilliance or overzealousness, depending on one’s perspective.

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/10/31/us/politics/andrew-weissmann-mueller.html

[yortsed snacilbuper]

1. I heard they would work for free if funding is cut off.

[CaliforniaPeggy]

2. A big, fat K&R!

[spanone]

3. Thanks!

[nycbos]

4. Nice too know Mueller has him on his team.

I was confusing him with Michael Dreeben. Dreeben is Mueller's appeals expert.

[FM123]

5. Weissmann's hyperdiligence is exactly what the team needs

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6. Andrew Weissmann

Career

From 1991 to 2002 Weissmann worked in the office of the U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of New York. While there he tried more than 25 cases involving members

of the Genovese, Colombo and Gambino crime families. From 2002 to 2005, he was deputy director and then director of the task force investigating and prosecuting the

Enron scandal.[1] In 2005 he worked as special counsel under Mueller at the Federal Bureau of Investigation, then went into private practice at Jenner & Block in New

York. In 2011 he returned to the FBI, serving as General Counsel under Mueller.[3] Since 2015 he has headed the criminal fraud section at DOJ. Weissmann has taught at

NYU School of Law, Fordham Law School, and Brooklyn Law School.[2] on June 19, 2017 he joined Special counsel Mueller's team in investigating the Russian

interference in the 2016 United States elections

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrew_Weissmann


Maybe he'll add the Trump Crime Family to his legacy.

[meow2u3]

7. Weissman put away baddies like Gotti and Vincent "The Chin" Gigante

I'm very confident he'll be able to put away a third-rate gangster like Trump.

[BlancheSplanchnik]

12. I like his track record!

👍🏾👏🏾

[FM123]

13. Yes, I think he will do just that (adding the TCF to his legacy)

[pangaia]

8. Did they plan to all wear the same clothes?

[lame54]

9. Probably a good idea to not...

Spread their pics around everywhere
Along with Papadopoulos's pic

[grantcart]

10. great article

[Nitram]

11. You can't bezealous when pursuing traitors and criminals.