One of Paul Manafort's former business partners, billionaire Ukrainian energy magnate Dmitry Firtash, has added two lawyers to his team, and their faces are very familiar to avid Fox News viewers.
Firtash has hired Victoria Toensing and Joseph diGenova, a husband and wife who frequently pop up on the network in support of President Trump, Bloomberg reports. They were both vocal critics of former Special Counsel Robert Mueller's investigation into Russian meddling in the 2016 election, and were briefly hired by Trump last year to join his legal team working on special counsel matters. Shortly after they signed on, Trump's attorney Jay Sekulow said that due to conflicts, they were being dropped, but that did "not prevent them from assisting the president in other legal matters."
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