PREVIEW

Former FBI Director, Robert S. Mueller III, who led as special counsel for the United States Department of Justice to investigate links between the Russian government and Donald Trump’s 2016 Presidential campaign has died at the age of 81. In August 2021 Mueller's family announced he had been diagnosed with Parkinson’s disease. No official cause of his death has been released yet.

From left to right: United States Senator Orrin Hatch (Republican of Utah), Director-designate,Robert S. Mueller, III, Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), United States Senator Patrick Leahy (Democrat of Vermont), and US Senator Arlen Specter (Republican of Pennsylvania) enter the hearing room for Mueller's confirmation hearing before the US Senate Judiciary Committee on Capitol Hill in Washington, DC on July 30, 2001. If confirmed, Mueller will succeed Louis J. Freeh.