The mystery company that fought a subpoena in special counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation appears to be facing less pressure even as prosecutors continue investigating, according to unsealed court records.
A federal judge stopped fining the company in February when it turned over almost 1,000 pages of documents to the special counsel. In April, the judge ruled the company, which refused to comply with Mueller’s subpoena last year, was no longer in contempt.
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Judge Beryl Howell previously fined the company $50,000 a day beginning Jan. 15 for its failure to comply with the subpoena.
It’s not clear if the company actually paid any fines.
The company, owned by a foreign government, said it had “gone to great lengths to find and voluntarily produce documents responsive to the subpoena.”
Mueller and the prosecutors who took over the case pressed for more documents, asking the judge to increase the daily fines up to $300,000 in recent months.
“The government is not currently confident that [REDACTED NAME] has fully complied,” prosecutors said in the court filings.
But the company was adamant that it handed over everything it had. The unnamed company “even retraced its steps … to make sure that nothing fell through the cracks,” it said. “What more could the Special Counsel want?”
The name of the company and the country that owns it has been kept secret and the documents unsealed Friday have extensive redactions.
However, the documents revealed the information needed from the company was part of an ongoing investigation that began before Mueller’s investigation.
