Secret case in Washington involves mystery corporation owned by ‘Country A’. Is it linked to Robert Mueller’s probe?
- Secretive dispute over subpoena revealed to concern an unnamed corporation, but many questions remain
- POLITICO has previously reported that the matter is related to the Mueller investigation
A mysterious case playing out in Washington amid tight secrecy – and presumed to involve the special counsel Robert Mueller – has been revealed to concern an unnamed corporation, owned by an equally anonymous foreign country.
The US Circuit Court of Appeals on Tuesday issued a ruling that answered some of the questions in a judicial drama that has increasingly obsessed Mueller-watchers intrigued by the exceptional lengths to which the US government has gone to keep it secret.
In several other regards, however, the judgment merely deepened the mystery.
The case, referred to in public dockets as 18-3071 with the evocative title Sealed v Sealed, began in August.
All that was then known was that it related to a dispute between a grand jury and an unnamed party against whom the grand jury had issued a subpoena.
With all documents in the proceedings closed to public scrutiny, and with POLITICO reporting in October that one of its journalists had overheard someone in the appeal court clerk’s office requesting Mueller’s latest sealed filing in the case, a mushroom cloud of speculation was unleashed.