Meet Mueller's team: The best prosecutors in the business or 'angry Democrats'?

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Meet Mueller's team: The best prosecutors in the business or 'angry Democrats'?
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Since Mueller's appointment as special counsel in May 2017, at least 18 prosecutors and lawyers have worked on the inquiry. The team members' specialties range from constitutional law and obstruction of justice to money laundering and cyber crimes.

Mueller and the deputy attorney general who appointed him, Rod Rosenstein, are both registered Republicans.Andrew Goldstein, right, then head of the Public Corruption unit of the federal prosecutor's office, arrives for a meeting with Mayor Bill de Blasio on February 24, 2017 in New York. Filehas been involved with the investigations into Trump's former longtime lawyer Michael Cohen and former adviser Roger Stone. A formerfor then-Manhattan U.S.

But Goldstein was also involved in the 2017 decision not to charge New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio in a bribery probe even though a campaign donorto trying to get favorable treatment through his contributions, The New York Times reported.

, which helped force Richard Nixon out of office and prosecuted a number of Nixon administration officials.worked with Mueller and Quarles at WilmerHale. She rejoined the firm in 2011, resuming work advising clients who are the subject of government investigations, including white-collar criminal investigations, the firm said in its announcement, after spending two years as a deputy assistant attorney general in the DOJ's Office of Legal Counsel.

Assistant U.S. Attorney Andrew Weissmann talks with the media outside the federal courthouse in Houston on Oct. 2, 2002.Weissmann's greatest successes and failures came when he directed the task force investigating Enron, a giant energy company based in Texas that

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