Armed with subpoenas compelling electronic records and sworn testimony, Mueller’s team showed up unannounced at the home of the business associate, who was a party to multiple transactions connected to Trump’s effort to expand his brand abroad, according to persons familiar with the proceedings.

Investigators were particularly interested in interactions involving Michael D. Cohen, Trump’s longtime personal attorney and a former Trump Organization employee. Among other things, Cohen was involved in business deals secured or sought by the Trump Organization in Georgia, Kazakhstan and Russia.

The move to question business associates of the president adds a significant new element to the Mueller investigation, which began by probing whether the Trump campaign and Russia colluded in an effort to get Trump elected but has branched far beyond that.

http://www.mcclatchydc.com/news/nation-world/national/article208090764.html

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3941974&forum_id=2/en-en/#35785391)

In a memo last May, Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein gave Mueller authority to investigate, with his approval, unrelated crimes that surface during his inquiry. A Monday court filing by Mueller included an Aug. 2, 2017, memo in which Rosenstein listed allegations now within the scope Mueller's investigative authority. Except for Manafort's alleged financial crimes related to his Ukrainian political consulting, the remainder of the one-page list of suspected criminal activity by other figures was blacked out.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3941974&forum_id=2/en-en/#35785402)

https://www.newsmax.com/newsfront/alex-castellanos-donald-trump-russia-probe-robert-mueller/2018/04/01/id/851946/

Republican strategist Alex Castellanos on Sunday warned President Donald Trump to get “good legal help now, because the storm is coming” in Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s Russia probe.

"The president – it’s hard to believe that someone like Donald Trump, who has been a disrupter all his life, who has flouted his way to business success, that Robert Mueller is not going to dig up something in Trump’s complicated financial history to say look, the president of the United States did this and it was wrong. And it’s hard to believe then that when Republicans lose the House in 2018, maybe by 40 or 50 seats, that House is not going to impeach him,” Castellanos said during an appearance on ABC’s “This Week.”

“And it’s also hard to believe that a U.S. Senate that’s going to be scared to death, though may still be in Republican hands, is not going to take a serious look when it has to deal with this president. So get good legal help now, because the storm is coming.”

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3941974&forum_id=2/en-en/#35787302)