President Trump is up against a team of prosecutors[1] composed of the best lawyers in their respective fields.[2] The attorneys on Special Counsel include attorneys who left lucrative partnerships in the private sector. Each attorney has a different role on the team, they are some of the best in each of their respective areas of expertise.[3]
We should all remain vigilant, we know President Trump[4] and his Republican allies in Congress[5] are trying to put an end to the investigation.
Special Counsel includes an attorney who has over 100 supreme court cases under his belt and is finding loopholes in Presidential pardons, an attorney who took down Enron, an attorney who has never lost a Supreme Court case, an attorney who was an Assistant Special Prosecutor on the Watergate investigation, an attorney who has prosecuted counter-espionage cases, attorneys who have investigated white collar crime and money laundering, a veteran prosecutor that specializes in cyber-security, etc. This investigation is moving at an incredible pace when compared to other administrations and indictments.[6]
James Quarles:[7]
Quarles worked as an assistant special prosecutor on the Watergate Special Prosecution Force. He came with Mueller from the law firm WilmerHale.
Andrew Weissmann:[8]
Weissmann served as the chief of the Justice Department’s fraud section, where he oversaw corruption investigations, including the probe into cheating by Volkswagen on diesel emissions tests.
Greg Andres:[9]
Andres is a white-collar criminal defense attorney at the Davis Polk firm. He had worked previously in the Justice Department's criminal division as a deputy assistant attorney general.
Andrew D. Goldstein:[10]
Goldstein headed the public corruption unit in the U.S. Attorney's Office in the Southern District of New York. He had worked there under Preet Bharara, whom President Trump fired as U.S. attorney after he refused to resign.
Elizabeth Prelogar:[11]
Prelogar is a lawyer in the solicitor general’s office.
Rush Atkinson:[12]
Atkinson is a trial attorney in the Justice Department's fraud section.
Aaron Zebley:[13]
Zebley is a former assistant U.S. attorney in the Eastern District of Virginia and served as Mueller’s chief of staff when Mueller was FBI director. He came with Mueller from WilmerHale.
Michael Dreeben:[14]
Dreeben is a Justice Department deputy solicitor general who has argued more than 100 cases before the Supreme Court.
Adam Jed:[15]
Jed is an appellate lawyer from the Justice Department’s civil division.
Aaron Zelinsky:[16]
Zelinsky is an assistant U.S. attorney in Maryland.
Kyle Freeney[17]
Freeney is an attorney on detail from the Criminal Division’s Money Laundering and Asset Recovery Section. In 2016, she was part of a Department of Justice team seeking to recover over $1 billion from an alleged corrupt Malaysian sovereign wealth fund.
Zainab Ahmad:[18]
Ahmad is an assistant U.S. attorney in the Eastern District of New York who specializes in counterterrorism cases. She was recently profiled in the New Yorker, which reported she had successfully prosecuted 13 terrorism cases since 2009 without a single loss.
Jeannie Rhee:[19]
Rhee is a former deputy assistant attorney general in the Office of Legal Counsel and assistant U.S. attorney in D.C. She also came from WilmerHale.
Brandon Van Grack:[20]
Van Grack is a Justice Department national security division prosecutor.
Ryan K. Dickey:[21]
Dickey’s addition is particularly notable because he is the first publicly known member of the team specializing solely in cyber issues. The others’ expertise is mainly in a variety of white-collar crimes, including fraud, money laundering and public corruption
