Mueller deputy who quit Stone case to testify before House panel
Source: CNN
The House Judiciary Committee has issued a subpoena to one of former special counsel Robert Mueller's top deputies who will testify next week amid a Democratic push to scrutinize Attorney General William Barr's actions related to the Mueller team's prosecutions of top Trump officials.
House Judiciary Chairman Jerry Nadler, a New York Democrat, issued a subpoenaed to Aaron Zelinsky, a member of Mueller's team who prosecuted President Donald Trump's friend and adviser Roger Stone, who was sentenced to 40 months in prison earlier this year. Zelinsky will testify on June 24 along with a Justice Department official in the Antitrust Division and a former deputy attorney general in the George H.W. Bush administration, the committee said.
Zelinsky took Stone's case to trial, and was one of the four prosecutors to quit the case when Barr softened the prosecutors' sentencing recommendation for Stone.
Zelinsky has the potential to be one of the most potent witnesses about Barr's recent decision-making and from the Mueller investigation, given his laser focus on one of the team's signature prosecutions, of Stone, his experience with the Justice Department leadership's influence in the case and his decision to stay within the Justice Department afterward, which few Mueller prosecutors have done.
Read more: https://www.cnn.com/2020/06/16/politics/subpoena-aaron-zelinsky-roger-stone-nadler/index.html
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