Mueller’s ‘Pit Bull’ Andrew Weissmann has pushed the prosecutorial envelope before

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

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