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How Mueller deputy Andrew Weissmann's offer to an oligarch could boomerang on DOJ
The Hill ^ | 07/22/19 | John Solomon 

Posted on 7/22/2019, 2:26:07 PM by yesthatjallen

The ink was still drying on special counsel Robert Mueller’s appointment papers when his chief deputy, the famously aggressive and occasionally controversial prosecutor Andrew Weissmann, made a bold but secret overture in early June 2017.

Weissmann quietly reached out to the American lawyers for Ukrainian oligarch Dmitry Firtash with a tempting offer: Give us some dirt on Donald Trump in the Russia case, and Team Mueller might make his 2014 U.S. criminal charges go away.

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Kyle Griffin

 

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Justice Department officials have communicated to Robert Mueller that the department expects him to limit his congressional testimony this week to the public findings of his report, according to one current and one former U.S. official familiar. https://www.politico.com/story/2019/07/22/justice-mueller-congress-testimony-limit-1426035 …

DOJ tells Mueller to limit testimony to his report, sources say

The former special counsel has said previously that he doesn't plan to go beyond his report.politico.com

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