Mark Levin always skewers Robert Mueller, and the Republicans in Congress, for protecting him. I decided to dig a little into Mueller's past to find out just how corrupt he was. Turns out, VERY.
Levin: "Everyone says Mueller is beyond reproach. Well, look at his handling in the anthrax case post-9/11. Look at the case when he was in Boston as it relates to Whitey Bulger. Four innocent people went to jail, a $100,000 plus settlement. Two of those guys, two of the four died in jail. And then you got this guy Andrew Weissmann the New York Time calls the Mueller's pit bull. OK. That's a guy that as a result of his actions twice was excoriated by judges for withholding exculpatory evidence. Tens of thousands of jobs were lost for no reason at all. Overturned 9, zero in the Supreme Court. And a guy that sent four Maryland executives to jail, four for a year, and that was overturned by the fifth circuit.
Why are the Democrats so keen on Mueller? Why are the media so keen on him? Why are the swamp Republicans protecting him? There is a lot of leaks coming out of that operation, too. Among them to the Washington Post the other day. Let's be clear about something. The media treats this guy like he is a judge. He's not a judge. He's a rogue prosecutor. And there are two sides to every argument. That's number one. Number two, he is going to put out a report accusing the president of the United States of obstruction of justice? When, in fact, that means that the president of the United States will be accused of obstruction of justice for impeachment purposes?"
Andrew Weissman, described by the New York Times as Mueller’s ‘pit bull,’ was Mueller’s legal advisor for national security in 2005 and later was selected by Mueller to be his General Counsel at the FBI.
When Robert Mueller left his $3.4 million a year job at the top D.C. law firm WilmerHale, where Manafort and Ivanka Trump were clients, he brought Andrew Weissmann with him to the Special Counsel team to investigate President Trump. Together, Mueller and Weissman have been behind the biggest scandals and blunders at the FBI.
Weissmann was a specialist in tracking financing and corruption and was once the head of the Department of Justice’s criminal fraud section. Mueller saw nobody better than Weissmann for doing whatever it took to win a case.
Mueller was also aware of Weissmann’s handling of the Enron and Arthur Anderson cases, as well as his involvement in the Eastern District of New York’s case against the Colombo crime family. Weissmann’s involvement in the Colombo case in the 1990s was the first of many cases that would draw criticism from his peers but this case, in particular, would be one of the FBI’s biggest blunders.
Judge Charles P. Sifton reprimanded Weissmann for withholding evidence from the defense, as previously reported. Weissmann allowed a corrupt FBI agent to testify against the defendants in the case despite having knowledge that the agent was under investigation. The agent had a nefarious relationship with a reputed underboss of the Colombo crime family, who was accused later of numerous murders.
Mueller had similar troubles during the 1980s in Boston when he was Acting U.S. Attorney from 1986 through 1987. Under Mueller’s watch in Boston, another one of the FBI’s most scandalous cases occurred. At the time, an FBI agent by the name of John Connolly, who is now in prison for murder-related charges, had been the handler for James ‘Whitey’ Bulger. Bulger, who Connolly aided in escaping FBI custody in the 90s, was a notorious mobster and murderer who had been working as a confidential informant for the FBI against other crime syndicates in the Boston area. Mueller, who oversaw the FBI during his time there, was criticized by the media and congressional members for how the situation in Boston was handled. Bulger, who committed numerous murders during his time as an informant, disappeared for more than 16 years until he was finally captured in California in 2011; by that time Mueller was director of the FBI.
Many have suggested Mueller never should have been FBI Director, a position in which he then hired Weissmann to be his counsel – and, of course, Weissman presided over the No. 1 most corrupt relationship between an FBI agent and his informant. The defendants in the Colombo related cases were acquitted after it was discovered that Weissmann and his team had withheld evidence. There were 16 defendants in front of 48 different jurors and 4 different judges. Three others had their convictions overturned. Two men convicted without the evidence having been revealed remain in prison, serving life sentences.
At one trial, Weissmann and his co-counsel expressly vouched for the integrity of the corrupt agent, concealing the corruption, and arguing to the jury that if they had any reason to believe the agent lied about anything they should acquit the defendant.
But Mueller and Weissmann’s past isn’t part of the public discussion. Why not? The special counsel investigation has enjoyed, overall, bipartisan support from senior lawmakers. Recently, however, the tide may be shifting and Rudy Guiliani has been brought in to help bring it to a close.