Next time someone complains that Robert Mueller is taking too long to finish his report show them this:
READ EVERYTHING I BOLDED.
ON THE APPARENT COMPLEXITIES OF CHARGING ROGER STONE
These are the games being played to delay the Mueller Report.
READ EVERYTHING I BOLDED.
ON THE APPARENT COMPLEXITIES OF CHARGING ROGER STONE
- February 22: Sam Nunberg questioned by Mueller’s team
- March 9: Mueller obtains a warrant for 5 AT&T phones (and probably a similar number of Verizon ones)
- March 9: Sam Nunberg appears before grand jury
- March 27: Ted Malloch stopped at Logan airport, questioned about Stone and Wikileaks, devices seized, subpoenaed to appear before grand jury on April 13 (the grand jury appearance was rescheduled or canceled)
- May 2: Michael Caputo interviewed by Mueller team; among the topics discussed was outreach by “Henry Greenberg” to deal dirt on Hillary Clinton to Stone
- May 10: Mueller subpoenas Andrew Miller for documents and testimony, Miller agrees to meet voluntarily with Mueller’s team
- May 11: Alicia Dearn contacts Mueller and says Miller is no longer willing to appear
- May 14: Mueller’s team contacts Dearn to inquire about her representation of Miller; she does not return the call
- May 18: John Kakanis reportedly subpoenaed after having been interviewed by Mueller’s team
- May 18: Miller blows off a May 18 appearance before the grand jury; Dearn’s employee says Dearn will contact Mueller’s team on May 21
- May 21: Dearn blows off promised call to Mueller’s team
- May 23: Mueller’s team emails Dearn a second set of subpoenas, to appear on June 1
- May 25: Stone says 8 associates have been asked for testimony
- May 25: Mueller’s team follows up on subpoenas; Dearn asks for more time to comply “given the volume of responsive documents;” Mueller agrees to adjourn document production to June 5 and appearance to Jun 8
- May 31: Mueller contacts Dearn to confirm appearance; Dearn complains about “patently irrelevant” responsive materials; Mueller agrees to exclude those materials
- June 1: Jason Sullivan appears before grand jury
- June 5: Mueller emails new subpoenas reflecting the June 5 production date and June 8 appearance
- June 6: Mueller emails Dearn to confirm appearance and arrange for travel
- June 8: Miller blows off grand jury appearance
- June 11, 8:50AM and 2:15PM: Mueller emails Dearn and asks for immediate contact, warning that Special Counsel would move towards contempt
- June 12, 9:07AM and 2:15PM: Dearn twice says she’ll provide correspondence within an hour but does not
- June 13: Mueller moves to compel
- June 14: Miller filed opposition purporting to be a motion to quash
- June 18: At hearing on motion to quash, court orders Miller to appear on June 28
- June 28: Miller retains Paul Kamenar, paid by the National Legal and Policy Center, who challenges subpoenas as challenge to Appointments Clause, borrowing argument from Concord Management motion
- June 29: At status hearing in Miller challenge, Kamenar adds another challenge, that Mueller was appointed by “Head of Department”
- July 18: Hearing on Miller challenge, attended by 5 Mueller lawyers, with follow-up briefing
- July 31: Chief Judge Beryl Howell rules that Miller must testify ASAP
- August 1: Kristin Davis interviewed by Mueller team; investigators express an interest in having her appear before grand jury
- August 3: Dabney Friedrich entertains ignoring DC Circuit and SCOTUS precedent to rule for Concord Management’s challenge of Mueller’s authority, with Kamenar watching; Concord lawyer Eric Dubelier suggests conspiracy in the timing of Howell’s ruling
- August 10: Kristin Davis appearance before grand jury
These are the games being played to delay the Mueller Report.