Washington (CNN) The grand jury's criminal investigation started by special counsel investigators is "continuing robustly," a federal prosecutor said Wednesday, even though Robert Mueller filed his report on Russian interference in the 2016 election with the Justice Department last week.
In a federal court hearing about whether the name of a foreign-owned company and the country that's been fighting a subpoena from Mueller since last summer should be revealed, Chief Judge Beryl Howell asked prosecutor David Goodhand point-blank if the grand jury investigation is over.
"No, it's continuing. I can say it's continuing robustly," said Goodhand, an assistant prosecutor in the DC US Attorney's office.
It remains unclear what part of Mueller's investigation is ongoing and if more criminal charges could still come, but the hearing on Wednesday made clear that stones Mueller turned over in the last 22 months will continue to be part of federal court proceedings and possibly lead to new cases.
There were no prosecutors from Mueller's office in court. The special counsel's office has handed over the subpoena case to the DC US Attorney's office.
mlamping on March 31st, 2019 at 03:05 UTC »
Question, if the investigations are still continuing why did the special counsel end early?
Antinatalista on March 31st, 2019 at 00:33 UTC »
Apparently, Mueller could not find sufficient evidence of conspiracy. But it's absolutely clear Trump colluded with Russia.
Sadly, collusion by itself is not a crime (Republicans actually insisted in this point many times). But it certainly disqualifies Trump to be president and completely justifies his impeachment. Impeachment, after all, is a political process. Even if Trump didn't technically commited a crime, he colluded with a foreign enemy to undermine American Democracy.
nodgeOnBrah on March 30th, 2019 at 23:48 UTC »
TotAlLy eXOneRAted!!!