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Paul Manafort

'I'm Out'

PAUL MANAFORT
MICHAEL COHEN

Are TRUMP DISCARDS

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ObQxTNQIfyY

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-otc-kushner/bob-mueller-and-the-kushner-client-conflict-question-idUSKBN18R2SU

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Alison Frankel

- Robert Mueller, the former FBI director who is now leading the investigation of potential ties between Donald Trump’s campaign and Russian officials, was a lawyer for Trump son-in-law and adviser Jared Kushner right up until Mueller resigned from Wilmer to accept his appointment as special counsel in the Russia probe.

The two ex-Wilmer partners who have joined Mueller’s special counsel team, Aaron Zebley and James Quarles, were also Kushner’s lawyers. And they and Mueller represented former Trump campaign chair Paul Manafort, too, when they were Wilmer partners.

Now that they’re under the auspices of the Justice Department, Mueller, Zebley and Quarles will be examining interactions between Russian officials and their former clients Manafort and Kushner. And if the facts warrant it, they have the authority to prosecute their former clients.

Is that ethical? Last week, Justice Department ethics experts reportedly cleared Mueller to take the special counsel assignment. But the Justice Department obviously does not speak for Kushner and Manafort. Can the Wilmer clients claim the Mueller investigation is tainted by conflicts? And can the White House – which, as my Reuters colleague Julia Edwards Ainsley was the first to report, has already proposed undermining Mueller by citing conflicts – claim Mueller should be disqualified because he was counsel to Kushner and Manafort?

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CHRIST