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By DARREN SAMUELSOHN 05/31/2018 05:27 PM EDT Updated 05/31/2018 05:47 PM EDT
The Justice Department has spent more than $17 million on its Russia investigation since special counsel Robert Muellers appointment last May, according to a government report released Thursday.
The latest DOJ totals reflect $10 million spent from October until March a particularly productive period for Mueller. During that times, Mueller netted five guilty pleas and 17 indictments of people and companies as part of his examination of Moscow's meddling in the 2016 election, and whether the Kremlin coordinated its efforts with the Trump campaign.
Muellers office in a statement said its spending was within the approved budget, though its still likely to draw complaints from President Donald Trump and his allies who have already found fault with the open-ended nature of the special counsels fiscal setup. The president has long labeled the investigation a "witch hunt" that has strayed far from its original mandate.
In mid-May, Trump targeted Mueller over spending, though the dollar figure he used didnt reflect what was public at the time.
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Civic Justice
(870 posts)I wouldn't care if Mueller spends $100 million... as long as it gets Trump and every gang member that is connected to him and as much of the Republican Congressmen as possible. If they were all given the "death penalty", it would be worth Mueller spending $200 million or more.
spooky3
(34,476 posts)Louis1895
(768 posts)...compared to Trump's golfing excursions to his properties.
MariaCSR
(642 posts)global1
(25,270 posts)to save our Democracy.
Orsino
(37,428 posts)Seems as though that would be an interesting sum.
PJMcK
(22,048 posts)Spend some more, Mr. Mueller. Just take this idiot down.
marble falls
(57,204 posts)trotsky
(49,533 posts)Add to that the cost of the investigation into the Sept. 11, 2012, attack on an American embassy in Libya by the House Select Committee on Benghazi, which helped prompt the email probe, and the price tag rises to close to $30 million.
OnDoutside
(19,970 posts)this.