Exclusive: Former Justice Department official joins Mueller team

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Exclusive: Former Justice Department official joins

U.S., June 20, 2017.
REUTERS/AARON P. BERNSTEIN

By Karen Freifeld | NEW YORK

(Reuters) - A former U.S. Justice Department official has become the latest lawyer to join special counsel Robert Mueller's team investigating Russia's interference in the 2016 presidential election, a spokesman for the team confirmed.

Greg Andres started on Tuesday, becoming the 16th lawyer on the team, said Josh Stueve, a spokesman for the special counsel.

Most recently a white-collar criminal defense lawyer with New York law firm Davis Polk & Wardwell, Andres, 50, served at the Justice Department from 2010 to 2012. He was deputy assistant attorney general in the criminal division, where he oversaw the fraud unit and managed the program that targeted illegal foreign bribery.

http://mobile.reuters.com/article/amp/idUSKBN1AH5F9

[VermontKevin]

1. All the duckies, all in a row.

[Gothmog]

2. You do not assemble this much legal talent without intending to get a few indictments

[oasis]

3. Magnificent Seventeen.

Trump can run, but he cannot hide.

[BigmanPigman]

4. "IF" he fires Mieller or has Sessions or anyone else fire him

what happens to all of the info they already have, his staff, and the entire investigation? Is it automatically scrapped and if we do end up getting a new special prose cuter can he keep everyone already on staff and use the info gathered?

[marylandblue]

5. In Watergate, the staff kept on working

until the new Special Counsel started and everything continued as before.

[dixiegrrrrl]

6. Sen. Feinstein addressed that this morning.

She indicated impeachment would result.
Meanwhile, last week or so, Schumer indicated Congress would just hire Mueller independently.

[Egnever]

7. When this thing finally drops

I have a feeling it will make the world gasp.