Does Mueller’s Conspiracy With Schneiderman Violate Ethics Norms?

Evidently Special Prosecutor Mueller has enlisted the help of NY. state attorney general Schneiderman to attack President Trump’s 2016 campaign manager Paul Mannifort and therefrom President Trump.

The power of a special prosecutor is equivalent to that of a federal district attorney, perhaps for every district, and such may collaborate with states attorneys generals on criminal investigations and grand jury matters, yet a special prosecutor is under no compulsion to do so.

Former F.B.I. Director Mueller has apparently taken that dubiously ethical step in order to thwart President Trump’s potential power to pardon Mannifort of any federal charges. If the New York Attorney General and state of New York could charge and convict Mannifort under state criminal law (as yet no indication of substantive charges potential has been presented to the public) the President could not pardon him since he can only pardon federal convictions.

http://www.businessinsider.com/meuller-schneiderman-manafort-russia-trump-2017-8

Such a tactic to lever cooperation from Mannifort in order theoretically to evade state charges seems a key ethics violation by the special prosecutor who is supposed to be conducting an impartial investigation into what Rolling Stone has called Russiagate. In Russiagate theory President Vladimir Putin cooperated with Donald Trump to put a silver stake through the heart of Hillary Clinton and put Donald Trump in office.

Mueller’s tactic follows the President’s pardoning of Arizona maricopa Country Sheriff Joe Arpaio on federal charges too quickly to be a coincidence. The brazen attempt to nullify lawful Presidential powers and even to influence the conduct of the executive branch of government seems like a breach of neutrality of the office of special prosecutor and together with the weird conduct of the last F.B.I. Director Comey during the Presidential campaign raises the question of what sort of people have been appointed to lead the F.B.I. ?

 http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2017/09/01/trump-slams-rigged-system-over-claim-comey-exonerated-clinton-before-probe-ended.html