Ryan Dickey

<p>Ryan Dickey was previously an assistant US attorney in the Eastern District of <a class="thought-link" href="brain://ZYDkYRXIQk-wsSVimZ0LaA/Virginia">Virginia</a> and also worked in the Justice Department's Computer Crime and Intellectual Property Section. He specializes in cyber-related prosecutions and was added to Mueller’s team in late 2017.</p>

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<p class="notable-cases"><strong>Role on Mueller team:</strong></p>

<p>Dickey has been involved in <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2018/02/16/politics/mueller-russia-indictments-election-interference/index.html" target="_blank">the case</a> against 13 Russian nationals and 3 Russian entities for allegedly meddling in the <a class="thought-link" href="brain://0JY3J48pDUqQqx2f1rrpdw/2016Election">2016 election</a> by using social media to spread divisive political messages.</p>

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<p class="notable-cases"><strong>Notable cases:</strong></p>

<p>Dickey was involved in the sprawling case against Megaupload, the online file sharing website that the Justice Department described as an “international organized criminal enterprise” that perpetrated “massive online piracy.” Dickey helped secure a guilty plea from an Estonian programmer involved in the case.</p>

<p>He was senior counsel in the case against the hacker known as Guccifer, a Romanian national who hacked the accounts of prominent Americans and was sentenced to prison in 2016. (Guccifer is unrelated to Guccifer 2.0, the online persona used by Russian intelligence operatives during the 2016 presidential election that claimed credit for hacking the Democratic National Committee [<a class="thought-link" href="brain://6k-WeuE2aEm_osSBb8av8A/Dnc">DNC</a>].)</p>

<p>Source: <a href="http://www.cnn.com/interactive/2018/politics/meet-the-mueller-team/">Meet the Mueller team</a></p>

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