On May 17, 2017, Mueller was appointed by Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein as special counsel overseeing an investigation into allegations of Russian interference in the 2016 U.S. presidential election and related matters. He submitted his report to Attorney General William Barr on March 22, 2019.Click to see full answer. Accordingly, what was the reason for the Mueller investigation? Impetus for investigation This investigation began in July 2016 due to the unwitting revelation by foreign policy advisor George Papadopoulos that the Trump campaign knew, before anyone else, that the Russians possessed emails stolen from Hillary Clinton.Additionally, who hired Andrew Weissmann? Andrew A. Weissmann (born March 17, 1958) is an American attorney. Starting in 2015 he became the chief of the criminal fraud section of the U.S. Department of Justice. In June 2017 he was appointed to a management role on the 2017 special counsel team headed by Robert Mueller. Likewise, what was the purpose of the special counsel? In the United States, a special counsel (formerly called special prosecutor or independent counsel) is a lawyer appointed to investigate, and potentially prosecute, a particular case of suspected wrongdoing for which a conflict of interest exists for the usual prosecuting authority.Who is Mueller married to? Ann Cabell Standish m. 1966
