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  1. 28 C.F.R. § 600.1.

  2. Report on the investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election, Volume I (hereafter referred to as “Volume I”), 14.

  3. Volume I, 36.

  4. Volume I, 7.

  5. Volume I, 8.

  6. Volume I, 8.

  7. Report on the investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election, Volume II (hereafter referred to as “Volume II”), 48.

  8. Volume II, 48–51.

  9. 28 C.F.R. § 600.6.

  10. Volume I, 13.

  11. 28 C.F.R. § 600.8(c).

  12. Volume I, 13.

  13. A sitting president’s amenability to indictment and criminal prosecution, 24 Op. O.L.C. 222, 223 (2000).

  14. Volume II, 182.

  15. Volume I, 14.

  16. Volume I, 36.

  17. Volume I, 67–68.

  18. Volume I, 71.

  19. Volume I, 66.

  20. Volume I, 70–72. It is also worth noting that Michael Cohen eventually cooperated with the Special Counsel’s Office and has expressed disappointment that the Special Counsel was reluctant to comment further on his investigation on issues related to obstruction of justice and witness tampering. See, e.g., LeBlanc (2019).

  21. Volume I, 76.

  22. Volume I, 73.

  23. Volume I, 146.

  24. Volume I, 131.

  25. Volume I, 78.

  26. Volume I, 79.

  27. Volume I, 86.

  28. Volume I, 96.

  29. Volume I, 111.

  30. Volume I, 149.

  31. See, e.g., Granovetter (1985).

  32. See, e.g., Heath (2014).

  33. See, e.g., Smith (2019).

  34. Volume I, 157.

  35. Volume I, 162.

  36. Volume I, 162.

  37. See, e.g., Williams (1973).

  38. Volume I, 22.

  39. Volume I, 25.

  40. See, e.g., Richards (2004), Adams-Bloom and Cleary (2009) and Sandoval (2014).

  41. See, e.g., Johnson (2017).

  42. See, e.g., Painter-Morland and Deslandes (2017) and Nielsen (2018).

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Lee, J. Review of The Mueller Report. J Bus Ethics 163, 167–172 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10551-019-04357-8

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