Article snippet: “Zainab Ahmad has concluded her detail with the Special Counsel’s Office but will continue to represent the office on specific pending matters that were assigned to her during her detail,” special counsel spokesperson Peter Carr said in a statement. Yahoo News reports: Ahmad will take an unspecified role at the Justice Department, but will still have oversight of Flynn’s case and other duties that were asigned to her while a special counsel investigator, said Carr. Prior to joining the probe, Ahmad was a terrorism prosecutor in the U.S. Attorney’s Office in Brooklyn. Her departure comes after another high-profile prosecutor, Andrew Weissmann, is set to leave the probe. Weissmann, often referred to as Mueller’s “legal pit bull,” headed up the special counsel’s case against former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort, who faces seven and one-half years in prison after judges in Virginia and Washington, D.C. handed down sentences of 47 months and 43 months in jail, respectively. Weissmann will both teach and study at New York University and undertake several public service projects, which include preventing wrongful convictions by boosting the court system’s forensic science standards, two unnamed sources told NPR. News of Ahmad’s exit also comes as Washington is abuzz with speculation about when Mueller’s long-awaited report will finally be released. Ty Cobb, one of Trump’s former personal attorneys in the Russia investigation, recently told ABC News that he woul... Link to the full article to read more