Exclusive: Former Justice Department official joins Mueller team
Source: Reuters
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.
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Among the cases Andres oversaw at the Justice Department was the prosecution of Texas financier Robert Allen Stanford, who was convicted in 2012 for operating an $8 billion Ponzi scheme.
Before that, Andres was a federal prosecutor in Brooklyn for over a decade, eventually serving as chief of the criminal division in the U.S. attorney's office there. He prosecuted several members of the Bonanno organized crime family, one of whom was accused of plotting to have Andres killed.
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Greg Andres is a partner in Davis Polk & Wardwell LLP’s litigation department, concentrating in white collar criminal defense and representing clients in both civil and criminal trials. He has represented individuals, financial institutions and other entities in regulatory and criminal investigations involving market manipulation, insider trading, securities, procurement and tax fraud, and money laundering. He also has experience in anti-corruption matters.
Andres has conducted more than a dozen jury trials and supervised dozens of others involving financial fraud, FCPA, terrorism and organized crime. In private practice, he has served as trial counsel on a variety of matters involving antitrust claims, securities fraud, legal malpractice and FCPA issues.
He previously served more than a decade in senior government positions at the Justice Department, including as a Deputy Assistant Attorney General in the Criminal Division at the Department of Justice, where he supervised both the Fraud and Appellate Sections and managed the Department’s FCPA program. He previously served as Chief of the Criminal Division at the U.S. Attorney’s Office in the Eastern District of New York.
Q: What’s the most interesting trial you've worked on and why?
A: The most interesting trial I worked on was the prosecution of Bonanno family boss Joseph Massino. I served as the lead prosecutor. U.S. District Judge Nicholas Garaufis presided and empaneled an anonymous jury.
More: https://www.law360.com/articles/790516/trial-pros-davis-polk-s-greg-andres
Be patient. We want a thorough investigation. Besides, the wait is 1000 times harder for anus mouth. Crime and Punishment details the kind of anguish the bastards are going through.
