Weissmann is a wartime consigliere about
this stuff. He has worked as both a prosecutor and a defense lawyer in the area
of white-collar crime. His specialty is international financial fraud, and
unwinding its complexities in such a way that the rest of us schmoes can
understand. And we, the schmoes of the world, make up jury pools. Robert
Mueller is not fooling around and, for all the bizarre behavior concerning
secure comms and Russian ambassadors, he seems to have homed in already on the
key to the whole sorry mess. Somewhere, at the heart of it, there's nothing
more or less banal than the classic American hunger for a quick and easy buck.
That's where this whole thing is headed.
Yesterday was pretty eventful here in Kalamazoo, Michigan, where I’ve been
since my mother broke her pelvis this weekend. (Here’s the story of another
ba...
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