Justice Department documents released on Friday confirm that the DOJ attorney known as Robert Mueller's "Pit bull" arranged a meeting with journalists in April 2017 to discuss an investigation into Paul Manafort.
The documents show that Andrew Weissmann arranged a meeting with DOJ and FBI officials and four Associated Press reporters on April 11, 2017, just over a month before Mueller was appointed special counsel.
Manafort's attorneys have for months questioned whether Weissmann, the number two official on the Mueller team, leaked information about Manafort to The AP. At the time of the meeting, Weissmann served as chief of the Justice Department's criminal fraud section.
In the hearing, FBI Special Agent Jeffrey Pfeiffer said that the FBI may have conducted a May 2017 raid of a storage locker that Manafort was renting based on a tip from AP reporters.
"The meeting was arranged by Andrew Weissmann," Greenaway wrote in her report, for the first time establishing that Weissmann took part in the meeting.
According to Greenaway, Weissmann suggested that the reporters ask the Cypriot Anti-Money Laundering Authority, a Cypriot government agency, if it had provided the Department of Treasury with all of the documents they were legally authorized to provide regarding Manafort.
A spokesman for the special counsel's office declined to comment on Weissmann's role in setting up the meeting and whether it poses a problem for the case against Manafort.
http://dailycaller.com/2018/07/08/mueller-manafort-journalist-leak/
The documents show that Andrew Weissmann arranged a meeting with DOJ and FBI officials and four Associated Press reporters on April 11, 2017, just over a month before Mueller was appointed special counsel.
Manafort's attorneys have for months questioned whether Weissmann, the number two official on the Mueller team, leaked information about Manafort to The AP. At the time of the meeting, Weissmann served as chief of the Justice Department's criminal fraud section.
In the hearing, FBI Special Agent Jeffrey Pfeiffer said that the FBI may have conducted a May 2017 raid of a storage locker that Manafort was renting based on a tip from AP reporters.
"The meeting was arranged by Andrew Weissmann," Greenaway wrote in her report, for the first time establishing that Weissmann took part in the meeting.
According to Greenaway, Weissmann suggested that the reporters ask the Cypriot Anti-Money Laundering Authority, a Cypriot government agency, if it had provided the Department of Treasury with all of the documents they were legally authorized to provide regarding Manafort.
A spokesman for the special counsel's office declined to comment on Weissmann's role in setting up the meeting and whether it poses a problem for the case against Manafort.
http://dailycaller.com/2018/07/08/mueller-manafort-journalist-leak/
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