WHOA: Former Mueller team member JOINS the Vance/Manhattan DA/Mazars case. We learned this week that there was a SECRET fourth team on the Mueller probe looking into trump's finances (Egypt +). I wonder if he was on that team. Dude has argued over 100 cases in front of SCOTUS.
“But there was a fourth team, CNN has learned: partly dedicated to investigating the Egypt matter.” PARTLY? What else was that fourth team investigating? OR is Vance now looking into Egypt since The Barr-appointed Sherwin took over at the DC US Attorneys office...
And closed the case this past June? We know Vance took over the hush money campaign violation case after Barr shut it down in the SDNY. Maybe Vance picked up multiple campaign finance violation investigations related to the trump organization including Egypt.
After all, when the Egypt case was handed off, prosecutors said it was “continuing robustly” and was “still very much a live issue”. I wonder if Dreben was on that secret fourth team in the Mueller probe. END
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