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Robert Mueller

American law enforcement official
Also known as: Robert Swan Mueller III
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Robert Mueller (born August 7, 1944, New York, New York, U.S.—died March 20, 2026) was an American law enforcement official who served as director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) from 2001 to 2013. In 2017–19 he was special counsel to a Department of Justice investigation into possible Russian interference in the U.S. presidential election of 2016. Mueller was born in New York City and raised in Philadelphia. After attending St. Paul’s, a private...

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