"The LeBron James Money Laundering Investigations" Leave the Mueller Team: Report

One of the chief prosecutors of the special prosecutor Robert Mueller, responsible for the investigation of Russia, leaves the Ministry of Justice, which suggests new speculation on the end of the investigation, according to a report.

Andrew Weissmann will leave to teach at New York University while working on various public service projects and preventing wrongful convictions, reported NPR. Weissmann helped build the case of former Donald Trump campaign director Paul Manafort, who was recently sentenced to more than seven years in prison following two cases related to Mueller's investigation. Neither one nor the other case alleged Russian collusion.

His departure indicates that the investigation of the special advocate is coming to an end, said a source at NPR. Weissmann has often been the target of conservative legal interest groups and supporters of the president. The author, Michael Wolff, said that Trump's former advisor, Steve Bannon, had told him that Weissmann was like "the LeBron James of money laundering investigations".

"Andrew is attacked because he is feared; people under investigation know how effective he is," said Enron's former prosecutor, Kathryn Ruemmler. "He possesses not only unparalleled technical skills, but also the intrepidity necessary to pursue complex and far-reaching business and a passionate commitment to ensuring that justice is done."

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Throughout his career, Weissmann has confronted personalities of organized crime, corporate fraud and other complex cases.

"He's attacked New York's most feared organized crime families, unraveled Enron's incredibly ornamental frauds and hounded international criminals, thus revealing their carefully hidden financial transactions in many dark corners." of the world, "said Leslie Caldwell, who has the Department of Justice and as a Brooklyn Attorney.