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Aaron Zebley, Mueller's chief of staff when he was FBI director

• Zebley was an elite FBI agent for 7 years in the Counterterrorism Division
• He was instrumental in tracking down dangerous Al Qaeda members back in 1999
• He then became a prosecutor and one of Mueller's go-to confidants
• He was part of the I-49 team: a small group of FBI agents based in NYC who were actively searching for Osama Bin Laden before the 9/11 attacks

James Quarles III, former Watergate investigator

• A litigator and a partner at WilmerHale, where he started in 1975. He runs the DC office of the firm
• He served as an assistant special prosecutor for the Watergate investigation
• During that investigation, Quarles focused on campaign finance research — something that will certainly be called upon throughout the Russia investigation, particularly after the FBI issued subpoenas for financial disclosures from Michael Flynn and Paul Manafort
• He has argued cases in front of the Supreme Court

Jeannie Rhee, former deputy attorney general in the Office of Legal Counsel

• Rhee was senior adviser to former Attornery General Eric Holder for two years
• She advised him and the WH on "constitutional, statutory and regulatory issues regarding criminal law, criminal procedure, executive privilege, civil rights and national security," according to WilmerHale.
• She tried more than 30 cases when she served as an Assistant U.S. Attorney in the D.C. Attorney's Office
• She rejoined WilmerHale as a partner in the Litigation/Controversy Department where she advised "clients who are the subject of government investigations" regarding "white-collar criminal investigations, False Claims Act allegations and securities enforcement matters."
• In 2015, Rhee represented Hillary Clinton in a case about her private email server, according to Politico.

Andrew Weissmann, DOJ criminal fraud section chief

• He was Mueller's one-time general counsel
• Previously led the fraud unit at the DOJ
• Weismann oversaw the Enron Task Force in the early 2000s, investigating the failed energy company
• From 1991 to 2002, Weissmann handled cases against various crime families in NY as part of his work in the office of the U.S. Attorney for New York's Eastern District
• He worked at a law firm where he focused on the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act, securities fraud, and other issues.

Michael Dreeben, DOJ's deputy solicitor general

• Dreeben currently serves in the Justice Department, overseeing its criminal docket before the Supreme Court and handling its appellate cases
• He has argued more than 100 cases in front of the Supreme Court
• He was a deputy in the Office of the Solicitor General
• He's been heralded as "1 of the top legal & appellate minds at DOJ in modern times," and has been called "the most brilliant and most knowledgeable federal criminal lawyer in America—period."

Lisa Page, an experienced DOJ trial attorney

• There has been no official announcement from the special counsel about Page, but WIRED notes Mueller has reached out to her
• Her investigatory expertise: organized crime cases, money laundering, and one particularly relevant case where she partnered with Hungary's FBI task force to investigate European organized crime.
• Note: Her work in Hungary is what led to the ongoing money laundering case against Dmitry Firtash, a Ukrainian leader who was once business partners with Paul Manafort.