Legal dream team in white shirts and dark suits
Right out of the gate, Mueller brought on three partners from his former law firm, WilmerHale, with significant litigating experience in high stakes cases: Aaron Zebley, who previously served as Mueller's chief of staff at the FBI; Jeannie Rhee, a former federal prosecutor and top official at the Justice Department's Office of Legal Counsel; and James Quarles, who worked on the Watergate investigation as a young prosecutor.
Mueller has also reportedly recruited skillful prosecutors from within the highest levels at DOJ -- including Andrew Weissmann, chief of the Criminal Division's fraud section, who served as former director of the Enron Task Force and general counsel under Mueller at the FBI.
But perhaps the most significant hire to date was reported by the National Law Journal on Friday: deputy solicitor general Michael Dreeben, a prolific Supreme Court advocate who oversees the Justice Department's criminal appellate docket.
"You don't bring Michael Dreeben onto something ordinary," said Katyal. "He's the top criminal law practitioner in the United States."
http://www.cnn.com/2017/06/10/politics/robert-mueller-russia-investigation-team/index.html
njhoneybadger
(3,910 posts)Yeehaw!
mobeau69
(11,144 posts)Dreeben is 1 of the top legal & appellate minds at DOJ in modern times, former Manhattan U.S. attorney Preet Bharara tweeted after learning of Muellers recruitment of Dreeben.
He added, My admiration goes far beyond his 8-0 insider trading win in Salman, referring to a 2016 case in which Dreeben argued on behalf of the government before the Supreme Court and won the case, 8-0.
njhoneybadger
(3,910 posts)LOL
mobeau69
(11,144 posts)BlancheSplanchnik
(20,219 posts)Dreeben is 1 of the top legal & appellate minds at DOJ in modern times, former Manhattan U.S. attorney Preet Bharara tweeted after learning of Muellers recruitment of Dreeben.
DAMANgoldberg
(1,278 posts)Even if they fire him, they can't fire everyone on the team. Predisent 45 is so cooked.