Top officials
Who oversees the investigation?
Top officials
Who oversees the investigation?
Top officials
Who oversees the investigation?
After Attorney General Jeff Sessions recused himself from the investigation for failing to disclose his private meetings with Russian Ambassador Sergey Kislyak, Deputy Attorney General Rosenstein took charge and appointed Robert S. Mueller III as special counsel on May 17. That was about a week after President Trump fired FBI Director James B. Comey. Though Mueller has a large degree of independence, Rosenstein oversees the investigation. He approves the special counsel’s budget and any expansion of the special counsel’s investigation.
Generally the FBI investigates crimes and the Department of Justice prosecutes them.
Here is a breakdown:
Rod J. Rosenstein
DEPUTY ATTORNEY GENERAL
Rosenstein appointed Mueller as special counsel. He can remove him or veto his decisions, although he does not have day-to-day supervisory authority over the investigation.
Robert S. Mueller III
SPECIAL COUNSEL
Mueller, the FBI director from 2001 to 2013, is now the special counsel in charge of the Russia investigation.
In recent weeks and months, Mueller has been expanding the legal team with different specialists as investigators continue to gather evidence in the case.
NATIONAL
SECURITY
CRIME
FRAUD/
CORRUPTION
APPEALS
(Higher Courts)
FBI
Until he was fired, James Comey, the former director of the FBI, was leading the investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 election. After Comey’s firing, Rosenstein appointed Mueller as special counsel.
Today, FBI agents gather evidence for Mueller’s team of lawyers.
Christopher Wray
FBI DIRECTOR
Wray is the new director of the FBI. Comey’s successor is under pressure to demonstrate the FBI’s political independence as it investigates Trump associates and Russian interference with the 2016 election.
Andrew McCabe
FBI DEPUTY DIRECTOR
McCabe served as acting FBI director after Trump fired Comey in May. When Wray was confirmed as director in early August, McCabe went back to his role as the bureau’s No. 2 official.
Mueller’s team
Who are the investigators?
ROD J. ROSENSTEIN
DEPUTY ATTORNEY GENERAL
Rosenstein appointed Mueller as special counsel. He can remove him or veto his decisions, although he does not have day-to-day supervisory authority over the investigation.
Special Counsel
FBI
Mueller, the FBI director from 2001 to 2013, is now the special counsel in charge of the Russia investigation.
In recent weeks and months, Mueller has been expanding the legal team with different specialists as investigators continue to gather evidence in the case.
Until he was fired, James Comey, the former director of the FBI, was leading the investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 election. After Comey’s firing, Rosenstein appointed Mueller as special counsel.
Today, FBI agents gather evidence for Mueller’s team of lawyers.
Muller's team specializes in:
CHRISTOPHER WRAY
FBI DIRECTOR
NATIONAL
SECURITY
Comey’s successor is under pressure to demonstrate the FBI’s political independence as it investigates Trump associates and Russian interference with the 2016 election.
CRIME
FRAUD/
CORRUPTION
APPEALS
(Higher Courts)
ANDREW MCCABE
FBI DEPUTY DIRECTOR
McCabe served as acting FBI director after Trump fired Comey in May. When Wray was confirmed as director in early August, McCabe went back to his role as the bureau’s No. 2 official.
Mueller’s team
Who are the investigators?
ROD J. ROSENSTEIN
DEPUTY ATTORNEY GENERAL
Rosenstein appointed Mueller as special counsel. He can remove him or veto his decisions, although he does not have day-to-day supervisory authority over the investigation.
Special Counsel
FBI
Mueller, the FBI director from 2001 to 2013, is now the special counsel in charge of the Russia investigation.
In recent weeks and months, Mueller has been expanding the legal team with different specialists as investigators continue to gather evidence in the case.
Until he was fired, James Comey, the former director of the FBI, was leading the investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 election. After Comey’s firing, Rosenstein appointed Mueller as special counsel.
Today, FBI agents gather evidence for Mueller’s team of lawyers.
CHRISTOPHER WRAY
Muller's team specializes in:
FBI DIRECTOR
NATIONAL
SECURITY
Wray is the new director of the FBI. Comey’s successor is under pressure to demonstrate the FBI’s political independence as it investigates Trump associates and Russian interference with the 2016 election.
CRIME
FRAUD/
CORRUPTION
APPEALS
ANDREW MCCABE
FBI DEPUTY DIRECTOR
McCabe served as acting FBI director after Trump fired Comey in May. When Wray was confirmed as director in early August, McCabe went back to his role as the bureau’s No. 2 official.
Mueller’s team
Who are the investigators?
Mueller, the FBI director from 2001 to 2013, is now the special counsel in charge of the Russia investigation. He recently began using a Washington grand jury as part of the investigation, a sign that investigators are aggressively gathering information on actions by Trump associates before and after the election.
Although a grand jury is not an indication that an indictment is imminent or likely, it is a powerful investigative tool that prosecutors use to compel witnesses to testify or force people or companies to turn over documents.
ROBERT S. MUELLER III
SPECIAL COUNSEL
There are 16 attorneys on Mueller’s team. The Post has confirmed 13 of them. Some are specialists in public corruption, others in national security, appeals or crime.
Fraud/Corruption
Greg Andres
Andrew D. Goldstein
Andres is a longtime 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. He specializes in foreign bribery.
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 Trump fired as U.S. attorney after he refused to resign.
Andrew Weissmann
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.
James Quarles
Quarles worked as an assistant special prosecutor on the Watergate Special Prosecution Force. He came with Mueller from the law firm WilmerHale.
Rush Atkinson
Atkinson is a trial attorney in the Justice Department's fraud section.
Jeannie Rhee
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.
National
Security
Zainab Ahmad
Brandon Van Grack
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 prosecuted 13 terrorism cases since 2009 without a single loss.
Van Grack is a Justice Department national security division prosecutor.
Aaron Zebley
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.
Crime
Aaron Zelinsky
Zelinsky is an assistant U.S. attorney in Maryland.
Michael Dreeben
Dreeben is a Justice Department deputy solicitor general who has argued more than 100 cases before the Supreme Court.
Appeals
(Higher Courts)
Adam Jed
Elizabeth Prelogar
Jed is an appellate lawyer from the Justice Department’s civil division.
Prelogar is a lawyer in the solicitor general’s office.
ROBERT S. MUELLER III
SPECIAL COUNSEL
There are 16 attorneys on Mueller’s team. The Post has confirmed 13 of them. Some are specialists in public corruption, others in national security, appeals or crime.
Fraud/Corruption
Greg Andres
Andrew Weissmann
Andrew D. Goldstein
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 Trump fired as U.S. attorney after he refused to resign.
Andres is a longtime 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. He specializes in foreign bribery.
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.
James Quarles
Quarles worked as an assistant special prosecutor on the Watergate Special Prosecution Force. He came with Mueller from the law firm WilmerHale.
Jeannie Rhee
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.
Rush Atkinson
Atkinson is a trial attorney in the Justice Department's fraud section.
National
Security
Zainab Ahmad
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 prosecuted 13 terrorism cases since 2009 without a single loss.
Aaron Zebley
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.
Crime
Aaron Zelinsky
Zelinsky is an assistant U.S. attorney in Maryland.
Brandon Van Grack
Van Grack is a Justice Department national security division prosecutor.
Appeals
Michael Dreeben
(Higher Courts)
Dreeben is a Justice Department deputy solicitor general who has argued more than 100 cases before the Supreme Court.
Adam Jed
Jed is an appellate lawyer from the Justice Department’s civil division.
Elizabeth Prelogar
Prelogar is a lawyer in the solicitor general’s office.
A grand jury in Virginia issued a subpoena related to Flynn’s business, the Flynn Intel Group. Brandon Van Grack’s name appears on the subpoena. Looking into payments he received from Turkey during his final months on the campaign, as well as RT, which the US government deems a propaganda arm of the Russian government.
ROBERT S. MUELLER III
SPECIAL COUNSEL
There are 16 attorneys on Mueller’s team. The Post has confirmed 13 of them. Some are specialists in public corruption, others in national security, appeals or crime.
Fraud/Corruption
Andrew D. Goldstein
Greg Andres
Andrew Weissmann
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 Trump fired as U.S. attorney after he refused to resign.
Andres is a longtime 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. He specializes in foreign bribery.
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.
James Quarles
Quarles worked as an assistant special prosecutor on the Watergate Special Prosecution Force. He came with Mueller from the law firm WilmerHale.
Jeannie Rhee
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.
Rush Atkinson
Atkinson is a trial attorney in the Justice Department's fraud section.
National
Security
Zainab Ahmad
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 prosecuted 13 terrorism cases since 2009 without a single loss.
Crime
Aaron Zebley
Aaron Zelinsky
Zelinsky is an assistant U.S. attorney in Maryland.
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.
Brandon Van Grack
Van Grack is a Justice Department national security division prosecutor.
Appeals
Michael Dreeben
(Higher Courts)
Dreeben is a Justice Department deputy solicitor general who has argued more than 100 cases before the Supreme Court.
Adam Jed
Jed is an appellate lawyer from the Justice Department’s civil division.
Elizabeth Prelogar
Prelogar is a lawyer in the solicitor general’s office.
Trump’s team
Who is under
investigation
and why?
Trump’s team
Who is under investigation and why?
Trump’s team
Who is under investigation and why?
Different members of Trump’s team are under scrutiny. On Aug. 9, The Washington Post reported that the FBI had conducted a predawn raid of former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort’s home, according to people familiar with the special counsel’s investigation.
But who else is being investigated and why?
PRESIDENT TRUMP
Obstruction of Justice
DONALD TRUMP JR.
Obstruction of Justice
Ties to Russia
JARED KUSHNER
Financial dealings
Ties to Russia
PAUL MANAFORT
Financial dealings
Ties to Russia
CARTER PAGE
Ties to Russia
MICHAEL FLYNN
Financial dealings
Ties to Russia
False statements
Obstruction
of Justice
Ties to
Russia
False
statements
Financial
dealings
Allegations that Trump aides or advisers made false statements in disclosure documents or lied to federal agents.
Federal investigators are looking into financial dealings of some of the members of Trump’s team.
The investigation is looking into possible coordination between Russia and Trump’s campaign.
Whether Trump obstructed justice in the probe of Flynn, leading up to the firing of Comey.
President Trump
Donald Trump Jr.
Jared Kushner
Paul Manafort
Carter Page
Michael Flynn
Obstruction
of Justice
False
statements
Financial
dealings
Ties to
Russia
Whether Trump obstructed justice in the probe of Flynn, leading up to the firing of Comey.
Allegations that Trump aides or advisers made false statements in disclosure documents or lied to federal agents.
Federal investigators are looking into financial dealings of some of the members of Trump’s team.
The investigation is looking into possible coordination between Russia and Trump’s campaign.
President Trump
Donald Trump Jr.
Jared Kushner
Paul Manafort
Carter Page
Michael Flynn
President Trump
Investigators will be looking into Trump’s discussions with Comey or meetings between his advisers and Russian officials. They will also focus on whether he attempted to obstruct justice in his discussions with Comey and others leading up to Comey’s firing.
[Special counsel is investigating Trump for possible obstruction of justice]
Donald Trump Jr.
Investigators want to know about Trump Jr.’s role in setting up a June 2016 meeting with a Russian lawyer and others at Trump Tower to discuss possible damaging information about Hillary Clinton. They will likely seek to learn if there were any other conversations with people who may have been acting on Russia’s behalf.
[Lawyer who met with Trump Jr. had Russian intelligence connections]
Jared Kushner
Investigators want to know what Kushner discussed at the June 2016 meeting in Trump Tower and any other conversations he had with Russian figures, including Russian Ambassador Sergey Kislyak.
Paul Manafort
The funds Manafort received from Ukrainian government officials and politicians are under scrutiny, as are the contacts he had with people who may have been acting on behalf of the Russian government.
[The predawn raid of Paul Manafort’s home adds huge intrigue to Russia probe]
Carter Page
Investigators want to know what meetings Page had with Russian officials or those acting on behalf of Russian officials, and what was discussed.
[FBI has questioned Trump campaign adviser Carter Page at length in Russia probe]
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