Mar 14, 2022 · Jeannie S. Rhee. Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison LLP announced today that Jeannie S. Rhee, a former United States Deputy Assistant Attorney General and most recently a leading prosecutor in the office of Special Counsel Robert Mueller, is joining the firm as a partner in the Litigation Department, resident in the Washington, DC office.
He’s simply moving around his well-stocked army of attorneys. On tap for the Paul Manafort Trial Part II: Jeannie Rhee. Rhee was most recently a partner at Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale And Dorr LLP, an American and international law firm affectionately known as WilmerHale. Mueller himself was a former partner there. And the firm is highly selective in its hiring practices.
May 17, 2018 · Jeannie Rhee is a former partner at the law firm WilmerHale, who has served in the Office of Legal Counsel and as an assistant U.S. attorney for the District of Columbia. “She’s a …
Feb 18, 2022 · A Georgian-American businessman is renewing his own Hillary Clinton 'spy' allegation – charging in a new legal filing that former Clinton lawyer Jeannie Rhee 'infiltrated' Robert Mueller's team ...
Jeannie Rhee has previously served as a Deputy Assistant Attorney General during the Obama administration. In 2017, Rhee was appointed by special counsel Robert Mueller to join the 2017 special counsel team to investigate Russia's intervention into the 2016 U.S. presidential election.
Previously, Rhee represented Hillary Clinton during the 2015 lawsuit regarding her private emails. Rhee also represented ex-Obama National Security Adviser Ben Rhodes and the Clinton Foundation in a 2015 racketeering case.
Last month, CBS reported Mueller is using a grand jury in the probe, which is an indication the probe is intensifying. The impaneling of a grand jury means Mueller's team has the ability to seek indictments and subpoena records, although the special counsel already had broad investigative authority when Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein ...
Michael Dreeben. Dreeben currently serves as the deputy solicitor general in charge of overseeing the Justice Department's criminal appellate docket. According to the American Law Institute, Dreeben, who has argued more than 100 court cases before the U.S. Supreme Court, joins the team on a "part-time basis.".
Aaron Zebley. Joining the prosecution team in June, Zebley had served as Mueller's chief of staff while he was FBI director. Before joining the special counsel's office, he was a partner at law firm WilmerHale, where he focused on cybersecurity issues. He also been senior counselor in the Justice Department's national security division, ...
James Quarles. Quarles served as an assistant special prosecutor as part of the Watergate Special Prosecution from 1973 until 1975. More recently, he also was a partner at WilmerHale. He also served as a law clerk in a U.S. District Court of Maryland in the early 1970s, according to Bloomberg.
Quarles served as an assistant special prosecutor as part of the Watergate Special Prosecution from 1973 until 1975. More recently, he also was a partner at WilmerHale. He also served as a law clerk in a U.S. District Court of Maryland in the early 1970s, according to Bloomberg.
Andrew Weissmann. Weissmann was the FBI's general counsel while Mueller was FBI director. In early 2015, he was selected to serve as chief of the fraud section in the Justice Department's criminal division. He has also worked as a partner at Jenner & Block and was the director of the Enron Task Force from 2002 until 2005.
Dreeben currently serves as the deputy solicitor general in charge of overseeing the Justice Department's criminal appellate docket. According to the American Law Institute, Dreeben , who has argued more than 100 court cases before the U.S. Supreme Court, joins the team on a "part-time basis."
Special counsel Mueller himself has been a registered Republican in the past and was first appointed FBI Director by President George W. Bush. These 18 attorneys are confirmed members of Mueller’s team:
Aaron Zebley is a former partner at the law firm WilmerHale, who previously served with Mueller at the FBI and has served as an assistant U.S. attorney in the Eastern District of Virginia. Zebley served as chief of staff to both Mueller and his successor as FBI Director, James Comey.
Harold Koh, the former Obama administration legal adviser to the State Department, worked with Dreeben and compared him to NBA superstar Shaquille O’Neal. Koh described Dreeben to ABC News as “the best in the business … [he’s] the best appellate criminal law specialist in the country.”.
Ryan Dickey is a longtime federal prosecutor who specializes in cybercrimes and fraud. Dickey worked for the Justice Department for several years and joined the Mueller team last November. He most recently served in the criminal division’s Computer Crime and Intellectual Property Section.
Jeannie Rhee is a former Deputy Assistant Attorney General at the Justice Department, where she worked in the office of legal counsel. But it is some of her past work as a private lawyer that is now drawing attention, as Republican investigators and outside media turn their focus on members of Mueller's team.
FBI lawyer Peter Strzok was removed from the probe after the discovery of anti-Trump text messages. House Republican Judiciary chairman turned up heat on Mueller team at a hearing Thursday. By Geoff Earle, Deputy U.s. Political Editor For Dailymail.com.
House Republican lawmakers are also putting Mueller and his team under the microscope. House Judiciary Committee chairman Robert Goodlatte held a hearing Thursday with FBI Director Christopher Wray, where he brought up the issue.