By Andrea Noble - The Washington Times - Monday, December 4, 2017
Special Counsel Robert Mueller has locked in two guilty pleas and two criminal indictments in the seven months since he took over the investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 election. But there’s one statistic he has yet to make public — the investigation’s cost.
The special counsel is preparing to release a statement of expenditures in the coming days providing a first look at what the probe is costing taxpayers — and depending on how funds have been spent, the disclosures could open up the controversial probe to additional criticism.
“There is a spotlight on the cost of these matters, some of which have been extremely exorbitant in the past,†said Randall Samborn, senior vice president of Levick and the former spokesman for Patrick Fitzgerald’s special counsel investigation into the unmasking of CIA agent Valerie Plamein the mid-2000s.
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