Overview
- The family said Mueller died Friday, March 20 at age 81 and requested privacy, with no cause disclosed and prior reporting noting a 2021 Parkinson’s diagnosis.
- Mueller led the FBI from 2001 to 2013 and was the bureau’s second-longest-serving director after J. Edgar Hoover.
- He was appointed special counsel in 2017 to investigate Russian interference in the 2016 election and possible links to Donald Trump’s campaign.
- In an April 2019 report exceeding 400 pages, he detailed Kremlin efforts to help Trump, said prosecutors did not establish a conspiracy, and stated he could not exonerate Trump on obstruction after documenting presidential pressure on the probe.
- Trump reacted on Truth Social by writing that he was glad Mueller had died.