Robert Mueller, ex-FBI director who led 2016 Russia inquiry, dies at 81
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Former FBI Director Robert Mueller, who led the 2016 Russia investigation, has died at age 81.
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Robert S. Mueller III, the former FBI director who led the special counsel investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election, has died at age 81. Mueller's family disclosed to The New York Times in August that he had been diagnosed with Parkinson's disease. His tenure as FBI director from 2001 to 2013 made him one of the most prominent law enforcement figures of the early 21st century. The special counsel investigation he headed from 2017 to 2019 resulted in indictments of numerous Russian operatives and Trump campaign associates, though it did not establish criminal conspiracy between the Trump campaign and Russia.
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