Article snippet: President Trump has added John Dowd, a veteran lawyer in Washington, to his legal team in the face of investigations related to Russian meddling in the 2016 election, as well as possible obstruction of justice in the firing of the James B. Comey, the former F.B.I. director. Mr. Dowd led the damning Major League Baseball investigation of gambling allegations involving the former Cincinnati Reds manager Pete Rose during the late 1980s. He also represented Senator John McCain, Republican of Arizona, in the so-called “Keating Five” scandal in which Mr. McCain was ultimately exonerated in 1991 after being accused of improperly meeting with federal bank regulators on behalf of a campaign contributor. “He’s a legend on both sides of the field, both as a prosecutor and as a defense lawyer,” Mark Corallo, a spokesman for Mr. Trump’s legal team, said Friday. “When John Dowd speaks, everybody listens.” It is likely that Mr. Trump will hire additional lawyers to his legal team. But Mr. Dowd is the highest-powered Washington presence on the team so far. Mr. Trump has put his longtime personal lawyer, Marc E. Kasowitz, in charge of his private legal advisers. He has also retained Jay Sekulow, who has been the face of the legal team on television shows. Mr. Kasowitz is well known on Wall Street and in Manhattan business circles, although his firm became a force in New York after beginning as a scrappy upstart. But several of Mr. Trump’s advisers have quietly complained that Mr.... Link to the full article to read more