Special Counsel Robert S. Mueller III ran one of the highest-profile investigations in US history and said almost nothing about it to the media. Throughout his work, Mueller never gave a public press conference, and his spokesman offered a simple “No comment” to almost every story with which he was presented.
Instead, Mueller and his team spoke in court documents, laying out in detailed indictments and other filings what they had found, and who they believed had committed crimes. Legal experts said Mueller’s “speaking indictments” appeared designed not just to make criminal cases against individual defendants but to educate the country about the evidence his team had gathered.
Following is a limited selection of some of the most important documents of the Mueller investigation, which lay bare how the special counsel penetrated the inner workings of Russian hacking and social media influence operations and charged a host of Trump allies with a variety of wrongdoing.