mueller run amok

https://www.newsmax.com/politics/investigators-robert-mueller-national-rifle-association-tax-filings/2018/07/02/id/869515/

Investigators working for special counsel Robert Mueller likely got access to the National Rifle Association’s tax filings and list of secret donors, McClatchy reports.

The newspaper group’s Washington bureau attributed the speculation to legal experts.

Those experts maintain it would be routine for the investigators to secretly gain access to the NRA’s tax returns from the Internal Revenue Service.

Prosecutors’ requests to judges for access to tax information are usually made “entirely in the background with no notice to the subject of the investigation,” said David Axelrod, an Ohio attorney, who had once prosecuted cases for the Justice Department’s Tax Division.

And Michael Zeldin, a former senior Justice Department official, said that “it would be basic blocking and tackling for the prosecutors to seek all relevant tax returns.