Andrew Weissmann is an American attorney. Since 2015 he has been the chief of the criminal fraud section of the U.S. Department of Justice. In June 2017 he took a management role on the Special Counsel team headed by Robert Mueller. Weissmann took a leave from his DOJ post to work for Mueller in that position. He does seem to have a checkered career and may be less than fair when going after a conviction. Here is the trouble he got into a while back.
As Written and Reported By Sara Carter:
In 1997 Andrew Weissmann was officially reprimanded by a judge in the Eastern District of New York for withholding evidence. Weissmann was reported to the Department of Justice Inspector General and Senate Judiciary Committee for alleged “corrupt legal practices.” A formal letter from U.S. Attorney Eastern District of New York Zachary Carter requested the judge to remove Weissman’s
