mo4ch:>A $32mn nothingburger: Justice Dept bill comes due for Russiagate costs | Mo4ch News

Nearly two years of fruitlessly hunting for collusion between US President Donald Trump’s campaign and the Russian government cost the country $31.7 million, the Justice Department has revealed.The cost of special counsel Robert Mueller’s 22-month probe was released in a Justice Department accounting report on Friday. While the last six months of the investigation, which concluded in May with Mueller’s resignation, cost “only” $6.5 million as he began sending prosecutors home and writing up the 448-page report, turning the full force of the country’s investigative apparatus against a president and his campaign isn’t cheap: from May 2017 to September 2018, the special counsel’s office spent $25 million digging for Russian infiltrators in the White House.Also on rt.comMueller’s testimony was a major anti-climax. Will Democrats finally realize he won’t save them?$2.4 million of the last phase’s expenses would have been spent anyway on Department salaries, according to the report, but the…