• In the United States, a special counsel (formerly called special prosecutor or independent counsel) is a lawyer appointed to investigate, and potentially...
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    The Robert Mueller special counsel investigation was an investigation into 45th U.S. president Donald Trump regarding Russian interference in the 2016...
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    An ongoing special counsel investigation was opened by U.S. Attorney General Merrick Garland on November 18, 2022, to continue two investigations initiated...
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    official report documenting the findings and conclusions of former Special Counsel Robert Mueller's investigation into Russian efforts to interfere in...
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    The Durham special counsel investigation began in 2019 when the U.S. Justice Department designated federal prosecutor John Durham to review the origins...
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    The Weiss special counsel investigation is an ongoing criminal investigation into Hunter Biden, the son of U.S. President Joe Biden. Attorney General...
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  • The Office of Special Counsel was an office of the United States Department of Justice established by provisions in the Ethics in Government Act that...
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  • associate nor partner. Some firms use titles such as "counsel", "special counsel", and "senior counsel" for the same concept. According to American Bar Association...
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  • The United States Office of Special Counsel is an independent U.S. government agency that protects civil service employees from unfair personnel practices...
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    The United States Office of Special Counsel (OSC) is a permanent independent federal investigative and prosecutorial agency whose basic legislative authority...
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  • Look up counsel in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. A counsel or a counsellor at law is a person who gives advice and deals with various issues, particularly...
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    Jack Smith (lawyer) (category Special prosecutors)
    2022, attorney general Merrick Garland appointed Smith an independent special counsel, responsible for overseeing two preexisting Justice Department criminal...
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  • investigation. On January 12, 2023, Garland appointed Robert K. Hur as special counsel to investigate "possible unauthorized removal and retention of classified...
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  • The Special Counsel investigation was a United States law enforcement and counterintelligence investigation of the Russian government's efforts to interfere...
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  • case, ruling Jack Smith's appointment as special counsel was unconstitutional. The Office of the Special Counsel appealed the dismissal to the Eleventh...
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    as special counsel for the investigations of Trump. On February 8, 2024, the Department of Justice released a report authored by special counsel Robert...
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  • interagency probe. The FBI's work was taken over on May 17, 2017, by the Special Counsel investigation of 2017–2019, which eventually resulted in the Mueller...
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    joined Hogan & Hartson, which became Hogan Lovells. Cobb served as special trial counsel during an independent investigation of the Department of Housing...
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    that he had not interfered in any way in the special counsel investigation, and in July 2019, Special Counsel Robert Mueller confirmed in his own testimony...
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    in the federal district court in Miami by the office of the Smith special counsel investigation. On July 27, a superseding indictment charged an additional...
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  • The 2017–2019 Special Counsel investigation involved multiple legal teams, specifically the attorneys, supervised by Special Counsel Robert Mueller, taking...
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  • Capitol attack. Attorney General Merrick Garland appointed Jack Smith as special counsel to oversee the investigation into Trump in both the January 6 events...
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    2022, Attorney General Merrick Garland appointed Jack Smith to lead a special counsel investigation encompassing the investigations into attempts to overturn...
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    over in May 2017 by former FBI director Robert Mueller, who led a special counsel investigation until March 2019. Mueller concluded that Russian interference...
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  • asking to remove the sanctions and reinstate the original lawsuit. The Special Counsel investigation is a United States law enforcement investigation of Donald...
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    William Barr (category United States assistant attorneys general for the Office of Legal Counsel)
    memo arguing that the special counsel had no right to investigate Trump. On March 22, 2019, Mueller concluded his special counsel investigation and gave...
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    Robert Hur (category Special prosecutors)
    to be special counsel in Biden probe". The Chronicle. Retrieved 12 March 2024. Weissert, Will (2023-01-12). "Who is Robert Hur, special counsel in Biden...
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  • criminal investigations while in office. The staff of Leon Jaworski, the special counsel investigating Watergate, wrote an internal memorandum in 1974 concluding...
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    Shortly after his termination, in a move that he hoped would prompt a special counsel investigation, Comey asked a friend to share excerpts from a memo he...
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    former U.S. Senator John C. Danforth as Special Counsel to investigate the matter. In particular, the Special Counsel was directed to investigate charges...
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