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Stuart G

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Fri Feb 16, 2018, 08:29 PM Feb 2018

What Trump is up against. An article about Mueller's Team: Washington Post: [View all]

Why post this article now?..To show again the quality and experience of the team Mueller has. This team is on our side to discover what Trump and the Russians did. While the article is from June 2017, it shows that the investigation side has extensive experience in the kinds of issues that Trump and his crew are accused of and will be accused of. These individuals have a lifetime of public service in the areas of investigation and convictions. Therefore, Trump's ability to "get out of this one" might not be what Trump thinks it is. This team in my opinion will get him. It is only a question of "when"

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/politics/wp/2017/06/16/muellers-team-has-over-a-century-of-experience-at-the-justice-department/?utm term=.267c29eab938

Philip Bump 6/16/17..Washington Post
Mueller’s team has over a century of experience at the Justice Department

Among the industries where President Trump is fostering the most job growth is legal services. Trump’s staff and allies are hiring lawyers to represent them in the ongoing investigation of Russian meddling by special counsel Robert S. Mueller III: The vice president hired a lawyer this week, and we learned that Trump’s longtime personal lawyer hired his own attorney Friday.

But the investigation is also generating a lot of work on the other side, too. Mueller’s team has grown to 14 people, including himself. We don’t yet know who all of those people are, but we do know some of the names. The best articulation of the strength of Mueller’s team comes from Wired’s overview. They include:

•Mueller, the former director of the FBI;
•James Quarles, who worked on the special prosecutor team during Watergate;
•Aaron Zebley, who captured terrorists for the FBI and has a background in cybercrime;
•Jeannie Rhee, whose career has focused on white-collar crime;
•Andrew Weissman, who targeted financial crime and the mob at the Justice Department;
•Michael Dreeben, a longtime criminal prosecutor and deputy solicitor general;
•Lisa Page, who has prosecuted money laundering cases at Justice.

Looking at the tracks of each person’s career (cobbled together from professional biographies online), the scope of the experience Mueller has brought on board is impressive.

(continue to read the article...there is a chart with a view of the experience of these team leaders with the FBI and with the Justice Department) (also these are team leaders, not full team, more have been added at later dates)

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