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bigtree

(86,005 posts) Wed Mar 27, 2019, 01:09 PM Mar 2019

Mueller grand jury 'CONTINUING ROBUSTLY,' prosecutor says

from Politico:
03/27/2019 12:29 PM EDT

The special counsel’s grand jury investigating Russian collusion into the 2016 presidential election is “continuing robustly” despite the end of Robert Mueller’s probe, a federal prosecutor said in court Wednesday.

David Goodhand, an assistant U.S. attorney, acknowledged the grand jury’s active status during a hearing in federal district court over a push to unveil the identity of a foreign-owned company that has been held in contempt for defying a Mueller subpoena.

The mystery company’s case was denied a hearing earlier this week before the Supreme Court, and in the meantime the open government group Reporters Committee for the Freedom of the Press has sought access to all materials in the clandestine litigation, including the company’s identity.

During a brief open hearing Wednesday, the chief judge of the U.S. District Court, Beryl Howell, pressed Goodhand to say if the grand jury Mueller had been using in the case remained active.

“It is continuing,” the prosecutor replied. “It’s continuing robustly.”

read: https://www.politico.com/story/2019/03/27/mueller-grand-jury-1238861

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Mueller grand jury 'CONTINUING ROBUSTLY,' prosecutor says (Original Post) bigtree Mar 2019 OP

So if the grand jury is still working, does that suggest The Velveteen Ocelot Mar 2019 #1

it might bigtree Mar 2019 #4

+1, then add ... wont release full report ... cause it's not done. More notches in the "Barr Lied" uponit7771 Mar 2019 #5

becoming clear Mueller didn't expect the report would be inactive bigtree Mar 2019 #6

This is really weird manor321 Mar 2019 #2

How can you write a FINAL report NotAPuppet Mar 2019 #3

Truth has a funny way of surfacing. C_U_L8R Mar 2019 #7

The Velveteen Ocelot

(115,836 posts)

1. So if the grand jury is still working, does that suggest

Reply to bigtree (Original post)

Wed Mar 27, 2019, 01:11 PM

Mar 2019

that Mueller was forced to release the report before he was really finished? If so, why?

bigtree

(86,005 posts)

4. it might

Reply to The Velveteen Ocelot (Reply #1)

Wed Mar 27, 2019, 01:14 PM

Mar 2019

...Barr comes in, Mueller's finished weeks afterward.

Nothing in the ending of his probe, or the AG editorializing his report inspires confidence.

Link to tweet

uponit7771

(90,363 posts)

5. +1, then add ... wont release full report ... cause it's not done. More notches in the "Barr Lied"

Reply to bigtree (Reply #4)

Wed Mar 27, 2019, 01:22 PM

Mar 2019

... tilt

bigtree

(86,005 posts)

6. becoming clear Mueller didn't expect the report would be inactive

Reply to uponit7771 (Reply #5)

Wed Mar 27, 2019, 01:49 PM

Mar 2019

...but part of a 'robust' review by Congress.

It makes me doubt Mueller's report has the finality Barr expressed in his summary.

manor321

(3,344 posts)

2. This is really weird

Reply to bigtree (Original post)

Wed Mar 27, 2019, 01:12 PM

Mar 2019

Is the grand jury continuing work related to this specific unknown company?

I can't imagine how the grand jury could be working on anything that was described in the Mueller report. That makes no sense. It must be for other cases which were started by Mueller but are still ongoing.