https://www.foxnews.com/politics/co...contempt-citation-against-foreign-corporation Confirmed: Mueller seeking subpoena, contempt citation against foreign corporation Documents filed with the Supreme Court and unsealed on Wednesday revealed definitively, and for the first time, that Special Counsel Robert Mueller is the party seeking a grand jury subpoena and subsequent contempt citationagainst an unnamed, government-controlled foreign corporation that has resisted prosecutors' efforts at every turn. Fox News has previously reported on strong indications that Mueller’s office was behind the case, although neither his office nor lawyers for the unnamed overseas company would provide confirmation. The proceedings are believed to be linked to attempts by Mueller's team to secure information to present to an empaneled grand jury in the special counsel's Russia investigation. Mueller is looking into not only whether members of President Trump's inner circle improperly colluded with Russia, but also a range of other matters pertaining to foreign activities by high-ranking Americans. Court proceedings have been closed to the public, and court documents have redacted the name of the corporation. During oral arguments in the case late last year, court officials shuttered an entire floor of the federal courthouse in Washington, D.C., from the public and the press. https://www.npr.org/2019/03/14/7031...n-in-latest-clue-russia-inquiry-may-be-ending Top Mueller Prosecutor Stepping Down In Latest Clue Russia Inquiry May Be Ending One of the most prominent members of special counsel Robert Mueller's team investigating Russia's attack on the 2016 presidential election will soon leave the office and the Justice Department, two sources close to the matter tell NPR. Andrew Weissmann, the architect of the case against former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort, will study and teach at New York University and work on a variety of public service projects, including his longstanding interest in preventing wrongful convictions by shoring up forensic science standards used in courts, the sources added. The departure is the strongest sign yet that Mueller and his team have all but concluded their work.
Supreme Court to meet behind closed doors to discuss mystery Mueller-related grand jury subpoena https://www.cnn.com/2019/03/21/politics/supreme-court-mystery-grand-jury-subpoena-mueller/ Source: CNN White House braces for release of Mueller report 02:08 Washington (CNN)The Supreme Court will meet behind closed doors on Friday to discuss whether to add cases to the court's docket next term, including one petition brought by a mystery company related to special counsel Robert Mueller's investigation. If the court denies the case, it will represent the last stop for a company that has been fighting a subpoena issued last year by a federal grand jury in Washington, DC. For months now, the case has been one of the most closely watched and guarded secrets among Mueller's work. The company, that calls itself a wholly owned agency of an unnamed foreign state, fought the subpoena arguing it was immune under a federal law called the Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act that limits such prosecutorial action. It also said that complying with the request for documents would violate the country's own laws. The case was so secret that at one point court security took the almost unprecedented step of clearing an entire floor of a courthouse in Washington to keep secret the identities of the lawyers arguing the case. Court filings initially blacked out the names of the lawyers representing the company and that the special counsel's office was involved, but both are now publicly known. A lower court ruled against the company holding that the request fell within the so called "commercial activities" exception in the law, and the court imposed a $50,000 per day sanction until the company complied. Those fines began accruing more than two months ago, on January 15. The ruling was affirmed by the US Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit. That court held that if the company's view were to prevail, "a foreign-sovereign-owned, purely commercial enterprise operating within the United States could flagrantly violate criminal laws and the US government would be powerless to respond save through diplomatic pressure." In January, in an emergency petition, the company asked the Supreme Court to freeze the sanctions while the company prepared its appeal, but the justices, with no noted dissents, declined to do so. In briefs filed with the Supreme Court, Brian D. Boone and Edward T. Kang, Alston & Bird lawyers, who were finally revealed as the company's lawyers, told the justices if the lower court opinion were not reversed, the judgment would "create chaos in the international community -- possibly alienating American allies, undermining diplomacy, and all but guaranteeing that American agencies and instrumentalities will (despite their protestations) face criminal proceedings abroad." Solicitor General Noel Francisco, countered however, that the Supreme Court should allow the lower court opinions to stand because there was no "pressing need for this Court to intervene in the absence of a conflict."
https://qz.com/1588348/robert-mueller-will-be-leaving-the-department-of-justice-in-coming-days/ Robert Mueller will be leaving the Department of Justice in “coming days” Robert Mueller, the special counsel who spent nearly two years investigating Donald Trump’s links to Russian interference in the 2016 US election, will be leaving the Department of Justice in the “coming days,” a spokesman said. Mueller, who spent 674 days on the investigation before handing a 400 page report to attorney general William Barr, “will be concluding his service within the coming days,” DOJ spokesman Peter Carr told Quartz today. A “small staff remains to assist in closing the operations of the office,” Carr said. He said he didn’t have more information on what day, exactly, Mueller would depart, or whether his departure could coincide with Barr’s promise to distribute a redacted version of the report before mid-April.
https://www.politico.com/story/2019/04/10/fbi-trump-comey-russia-1264700 FBI brass discussed possibility Trump fired Comey 'at the behest of' Russia James Baker, the former top lawyer of the FBI, said senior bureau officials — including at least one deemed to be free of anti-Trump bias — discussed the possibility in May 2017 that President Donald Trump had fired FBI Director James Comey “at the behest of” the Russian government.
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/04/10/...-be-charged-soon-in-mueller-related-case.html Ex-Obama Counsel Expects to Be Charged Soon in Mueller-Related Case Rather, they expect him to be charged with making false statements to the Justice Department officials examining whether he was required to register under the law for work he did in 2012, while he was a partner at Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom. The work, on behalf of the government of Viktor F. Yanukovych, then the president of Ukraine, was linked to Paul Manafort, who at the time was a political consultant earning tens of millions of dollars for his representation of Mr. Yanukovych.