• 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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    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 2017-2019 Special Counsel investigation involved multiple legal teams, specifically the attorneys, supervised by Special Counsel Robert Mueller, taking...
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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 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 Special Counsel investigation was a United States law enforcement and counterintelligence investigation of the Russian government's efforts to interfere...
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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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    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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  • 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 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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    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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  • 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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  • 6, 2021. 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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    detailing the "principal conclusions" of the Mueller report of the Special Counsel investigation led by Robert Mueller into Russian efforts to interfere...
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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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  • 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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    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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    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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    2022, a special counsel investigation was launched to take over the FBI investigation, under the direction of Jack Smith, a special counsel appointed...
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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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    role again in 2022. He recently served as Special Counsel to the Governor, Kathy Hochul and as Special Counsel to the Transition following the resignation...
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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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  • Reactions to the Special Counsel investigation of any Russian government efforts to interfere in the 2016 presidential election have been widely varied...
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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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    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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