Mueller probe already financed through September
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Robert Mueller and his team have been funded through the end of September 2019, three U.S. officials tells Reuters, an indication that the probe has funding to keep it going for months if need be.
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-trump-budget-mueller/mueller-probe-already-financed-through-september-officials-idUSKBN1QS2QB
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Special Counsel Robert Mueller and the team he assembled to investigate U.S. President Donald Trump and his associates have been funded through the end of September 2019, three U.S. officials said on Monday, an indication that the probe has funding to keep it going for months if need be.
The operations and funding of Muellers office were not addressed in the budget requests for the next government fiscal year issued by the White House and Justice Department on Monday because Muellers office is financed by the U.S. Treasury under special regulations issued by the Justice Department, the officials said.
The Special Counsel is funded by the Independent Counsel appropriation, a permanent indefinite appropriation established in the Departments 1988 Appropriations Act, a Justice Department spokesman said.
There has been increased speculation in recent weeks that Muellers team is close to winding up its work and is likely to deliver a report summarizing its findings to Attorney General William Barr any day or week now. Muellers office has not commented on the news reports suggesting an imminent release...