Another top prosecutor exits Robert Mueller's team, raising speculations investigation is nearing its end
Written by Fox News on March 19, 2019
Another top prosecutor has left special counsel Robert Mueller’s team, marking the second high-profile departure announcement this month and raising speculations that the Russia probe will soon be wrapped up.
Zainab Ahmad, a U.S. attorney in the Eastern District of New York who worked on extensively on counterterrorism cases, was one of the prosecutors who signed former national security adviser Michael Flynn’s guilty plea for lying to the FBI concerning his contacts with a Russian official.
But the special counsel’s office said on Monday that Ahmad is done with her work on the investigation concerning alleged cooperation between the Trump campaign and Russia.
“Zainab Ahmad has concluded her detail with the Special Counsel’s Office but will continue to represent the office on specific pending matters that were assigned to her during her detail,” Peter Carr said in a statement first reported by Yahoo! News.
The prosecutor’s departure came just a week after it was confirmed that deputy special counsel Andrew Weissmann is planning to leave the Mueller’s team “in the near future” and expected to work at the New York University School of Law.
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In addition to Ahmad and Weissmann, the FBI also announced earlier this month that David Archey, senior legal special agent on the special counsel’s team, began reporting to his new job on March 4.
The departures are likely to fuel the speculations that the Russia investigation is nearing its end following years of legal battles that netted sentences against President Trump’s associates.
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Yet both the Justice Department and Mueller team are tight-lipped when the report on the alleged collusion could see the light.
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