Apparently, he was involved in going after Paul Manafort, and then left the government to be at New York University.
I used to listen to some NPR at that time, and I was following the Muller investigation pretty closely, but from the other side. Weissman was portrayed as the powerhouse in the Muller investigation and all the podcasters put a lot of their hopes and called him "bulldog" (or some name like that) because apparently he had prosecuted a lot of high profile people.
He was with Muller even until March 2019 less than a month before the report was released.
It is interesting that in addition to Paul Manafort, he was tasked at one point with going after Trump's children and extended circle, which was later rescinded by Whittaker. Almost makes me think that Weissman had already been turned, or was very masterfully distracted from the main investigations.
Cant wait to read the books about the inside stories of this times.
For me what really struck me was how all the podcasters were lamenting about the way the report was summarised, but not one of them would ever go into details and explain where the summary was wrong.
I used to listen to some NPR at that time, and I was following the Muller investigation pretty closely, but from the other side. Weissman was portrayed as the powerhouse in the Muller investigation and all the podcasters put a lot of their hopes and called him "bulldog" (or some name like that) because apparently he had prosecuted a lot of high profile people.
He was with Muller even until March 2019 less than a month before the report was released.
It is interesting that in addition to Paul Manafort, he was tasked at one point with going after Trump's children and extended circle, which was later rescinded by Whittaker. Almost makes me think that Weissman had already been turned, or was very masterfully distracted from the main investigations.
Cant wait to read the books about the inside stories of this times.
For me what really struck me was how all the podcasters were lamenting about the way the report was summarised, but not one of them would ever go into details and explain where the summary was wrong.