https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/tru...ussia-investigation-sources/story?id=57919471 Trump 'dossier' stuck in New York, didn't trigger Russia investigation, sources say But, beginning in July 2016, that so-called “dossier” actually sat for several weeks inside an organized crime unit at the FBI’s New York field office, even as counterintelligence agents in Washington, D.C. – unaware of the new allegations – were already investigating Russian efforts to hijack American democracy. Trump doubled down on his “dossier” accusation this week, ordering the Justice Department and U.S. intelligence community to release a bigger slice of the classified information used to investigate one of his advisers, New York business consultant Carter Page, insisting again Tuesday that “what will be disclosed is that there was no basis” for the surveillance.
https://www.marketwatch.com/story/comey-explains-why-mueller-probe-may-conclude-soon-2018-09-20 James Comey explains why Mueller’s Russia probe may conclude soon ‘The way you normally do investigations is you work from the bottom up, and so they’re getting pretty high. The plea and cooperation by Paul Manafort may represent we’re in the fourth quarter.’ —James Comey
https://www.politico.com/story/2018/10/02/mueller-investigation-emails-hack-857288 GOP operative who sued Trump says FBI referred hacking of her email to Mueller Federal law enforcement officials have referred a 2-year-old email hacking investigation to special counsel Robert Mueller, according to the Republican operative who was the target of the hack. The referral addsyet another dimension to the special counsel’s sprawling probe, even as some of President Donald Trump’s allies portray Mueller’s work as nearing its conclusion. The operative and Trump critic, Cheri Jacobus, told POLITICO that FBI agents in the bureau’s cyber division informed her in September that they had forwarded their investigation to Mueller because the matter came to exceed the bounds of computer intrusion, the crime that had been the initial focus of the investigation. https://www.cnn.com/2018/10/02/politics/mueller-two-prosecutors-leave/index.html 2 additional prosecutors leave Mueller's office http://time.com/5413471/robert-mueller-russia-probe-attorneys/ Robert Mueller's Russia Investigation Sheds Attorneys in Sign of a Narrowing Probe
https://thehill.com/blogs/blog-brie...ty-ag-linked-to-lawyer-in-trump-tower-meeting Russian official with ties to lawyer in Trump Tower meeting dies in helicopter crash
https://thehill.com/policy/national...for-forfeiture-order-to-seize-manafort-assets Mueller moves for forfeiture order to seize Manafort assets Forfeiture of the assets identified as part of Manafort's scheme to hide millions of dollars made lobbying for pro-Russia parties in Ukraine was agreed upon in a plea agreement Manafort signed with Mueller's team last month.
Looks like Trump's stern words and Putin's reassurances were not enough 3 indicted Russians previously charged by Robert Mueller https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/3-indicted-russians-previously-charged-by-robert-mueller LONDON — Justice Department officials say three of the seven Russian military intelligence officials accused in the hacking of anti-doping agencies were previously charged by special counsel Robert Mueller. The three defendants named in an indictment unsealed Thursday also were named in a July indictment that accused Russia of hacking Democratic email accounts and facilitating the release of stolen emails.