https://www.politico.com/story/2019/02/01/docs-firm-that-handles-cases-for-russian-interests-is-locked-in-mueller-grand-jury-fight-1144016

Attorneys from Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s office are the prosecutors locked in a mysterious grand jury subpoena fight that a state-owned foreign company has taken all the way to the Supreme Court, court records now confirm.

A docket unsealed by the U.S. District Court in Washington shows two prosecutors from Mueller’s office, Scott Meisler and Zainab Ahmad, are handling the dispute on behalf of the special counsel.

The country and the company resisting Mueller’s demand for information have still not been publicly identified, but the district court and a federal appeals court confirmed this week that Atlanta-based Alston and Bird is representing the firm at the center of the fight.

Alston and Bird’s clients have included Russian interests including a Russian oligarch, although it’s unclear if the present fight involves a company from Russia or elsewhere.

The dispute has proceeded with unusual secrecy, including — until now — the names of the lawyers for both sides being withheld by the three different federal courts to grapple with the matter.

However, with journalists pressing for more access to the details of the fight, the district court released a docket sheet Wednesday laying out a timeline of the filings in the dispute. With no fanfare, the same court posted a slightly less redacted version of that docket online Thursday.

The new version revealed the names of Meisler and Ahmad, as well as four attorneys for the foreign company: Brian Boone, Ted Kang, Emily Costin and Karl Geercken.

On Friday, the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals unsealed a document also naming Boone and Kang as lawyers for the company in that court. The Friday order making that document public also discloses that the opposition to unsealing the records has come from Mueller’s prosecutors, at least in recent weeks.

BOOM!