Special counsel Robert Mueller is assembling a prosecution team with decades of experience going after everything from Watergate to the Mafia to Enron as he digs in for a lengthy probe into possible collusion between Russia and President Donald Trump’s 2016 campaign.His first appointments — tapping longtime law firm partner James Quarles and Andrew Weissmann, the head of the Justice Department’s criminal fraud unit — were the opening moves in a politically red-hot criminal case that has already upended the opening months of the Trump White House.Mueller is expected to take an expansive view of his role. He inherited a …read more
Source: POLITICO – U.S. Edition
