Top Mueller Prosecutor Will Soon Depart DOJ In Another Sign Probe Is Wrapping Up

HOUSTON, TX - OCTOBER 2: Asst. U.S. Attorney Andy Weissmann speaks outside the Federal Court House after bringing charges against former Enron CFO Andrew Fastow October 2, 2002 in Houston, Texas. Fastow was charge... HOUSTON, TX - OCTOBER 2: Asst. U.S. Attorney Andy Weissmann speaks outside the Federal Court House after bringing charges against former Enron CFO Andrew Fastow October 2, 2002 in Houston, Texas. Fastow was charged with money laundering, fraud and conspiring to defraud Enron out of millions for his own enrichment. (Photo by Paul S Howell/Getty Images) MORE LESS
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Andrew Weissmann, a top prosecutor on special counsel Robert Mueller’s team who led the case against Paul Manafort, will soon leave the special counsel’s office and the Justice Department as a whole to teach at New York University, NPR reported.

A source told NPR that the latest departure of a prominent prosecutor is the strongest indication yet that the special counsel’s investigation into President Trump’s campaign and Russian interference in the 2016 election is quickly wrapping up.

In a statement to TPM on Thursday, the special counsel’s office confirmed that Weissmann “will be concluding his detail to the special counsel’s office in the near future.”

Weissmann’s exit follows the departure of the top FBI agent on the case, Special Agent in Charge David Archey, who left the office on March 4. Brandon Van Grack, another prosecutor in the office, also left earlier this month to head up the enforcement of the Foreign Agents Registration Act, a law that tripped up several of the key players in the President Trump’s campaign and early administration: Manafort, Rick Gates and Michael Flynn.

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  1. Mueller Argues For Delayed Sentencing In Gates Case In Another Sign Probe NOT Wrapping Up. :grin:

  2.           In Another Sign
    

    Tea leaves ? ? … er
    crystal ball ? ? … er

    maybe it’s in the stars ? ? …

    but … but … speculating is just so … ’ fun ’ …

    [not to mention making money for the instigators ] —

  3. Avatar for tena tena says:

    Yeah and he’s funded through September and got a 6 month extension on his grand jury, which is checkmate to people going back to their regular jobs from which they’ve been on leave for quite awhile.

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