RUSSIAN INTERFERENCE IN 2016 US ELECTION & SPIN-OFF INVESTIGATIONS

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Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s Washington grand jury, which was set to expire over the weekend, has had its term formally extended by a federal judge.

By law, most federal grand juries are impaneled for 18-month terms, although extensions for up to six months are routinely granted. The key grand jury used by Mueller came into existence on July 5, 2017, and would have run out Saturday without action from the court.

Grand jury 17-1 is the same one that has produced several indictments related to the Mueller probe, including charges against former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort and deputy campaign chairman Rick Gates. 

The same panel has also returned indictments against 25 Russians and three Russian companies over alleged hacking and online activity related to the 2016 U.S presidential election.

The extension of the grand jury suggests that Mueller may plan further indictments, but there were already several other indications of that. Two political supporters of President Donald Trump — political operative Roger Stone and author Jerome Corsi — have said that they expect to be indicted by Mueller’s prosecutors in regards to the WikiLeaks release of stolen DNC / Podesta emails.

Source: https://www.politico.com/story/2019/01/0...ed-1082560