Washington Times: Mueller’s all-star legal team in Russia probe signals direction of investigation
As a federal prosecutor in the 1990s, Andrew Weissmann persuaded mobsters to break the Mafia code and testify against their brothers in crime, winning a conviction against Genovese family boss Vincent “the Chin” Gigante.
Later, as he headed the Justice Department’s Enron task force, his ability to persuade key witnesses to testify about what they saw on the inside helped secure a series of convictions.
Now Mr. Weissmann is part of the all-star team that former FBI Director Robert Mueller has put together as the special counsel pursuing a look into Russian meddling in the November presidential election and suspected collusion with Trump campaign figures — a case legal analysts say is brimming with the potential for cooperators.
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WNU Editor: If all the speculation and punditry of the past week is any indication .... the focus of the Special Counsel will be to prove the claims that Russia meddled in last year's Presidential election .... and that President Trump obstructed the investigation. The tool that they will be using is to pressure/persuade key witnesses to testify on what they saw .... and to try and make a case based on the evidence that they may get from that testimony. Well .... they better get people talking, because after months of non-stop coverage I have yet to see any tangible evidence that proves that Trump officials colluded with Russia to swing the election .... let alone hacked the vote.
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