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The Mueller report concluded that the Russian company Concord Management [[US v. Concord Management|was guilty of the crimes Mueller accused them of]]. The company however is still in pre-trial proceedings in US Federal Court that forbids under criminal penalty any assertion of this kind be made pending a [[jury]] determining their guilt or innocence. Lawyers for Concord Management and Consulting asked U.S. District Judge Dabney Friedrich of the District of Columbia, a Trump appointee, to order the government to show cause as to why Robert Mueller should not be held in criminal contempt for violating local criminal rule 57.7 by releasing Mueller's report, interfering with their right to a fair trial.<ref>https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/5978065-4-25-19-Concord-Motion-for-Show-Cause-Order.html</ref>
The Mueller report concluded that the Russian company Concord Management [[US v. Concord Management|was guilty of the crimes Mueller accused them of]]. The company however is still in pre-trial proceedings in US Federal Court that forbids under criminal penalty any assertion of this kind be made pending a [[jury]] determining their guilt or innocence. Lawyers for Concord Management and Consulting asked U.S. District Judge Dabney Friedrich of the District of Columbia, a Trump appointee, to order the government to show cause as to why Robert Mueller should not be held in criminal contempt for violating local criminal rule 57.7 by releasing Mueller's report, interfering with their right to a fair trial.<ref>https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/5978065-4-25-19-Concord-Motion-for-Show-Cause-Order.html</ref>
Mueller refused to testify under oath before Congressional committees about his final report for fear of undergoing tough questioning about the conduct of investigation, mistreatment of victims of illegal surveillance, and political bias among staff. Democrats refused to [[subpoena]] him. In late May 2017 Mueller held a press conference, taking [[partisan]] swipes at President Trump. Nines days before Mueller's appointment as Special Counsel, Deputy AG Rod Rosenstein wrote a memorandum reprimanding Mueller's successor at the FBI, James Comey, leading to Comey's firing: {{quotebox we do not hold press conferences to release derogatory information about the subject of a declined criminal investigation. Derogatory information sometimes is disclosed in the course of criminal investigations and prosecutions, but we never release it gratuitously. The Director laid out his version of the facts for the news media as if it were a closing argument, but without a trial. It is a textbook example of what federal prosecutors and agents are taught not to do.<ref>https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2017/05/rosenstein-letter-annotated/526116/</ref>}} Mueller resigned from the Justice department the same day before he could be fired as Comey was for the same behavior and misuse of power. [[Judicial Watch]] president Tim Fittin called for an investigation into Mueller.<ref>https://dailycaller.com/2019/05/29/tom-fitton-robert-mueller-investigation/?utm_medium=email
==See also==
==See also==