WASHINGTON — The Division of Justice has indicted former FBI Director James Comey for a second time, sources conversant in the matter instructed The Publish Tuesday.
The fees — which weren’t instantly clear — have been first reported by CNN. One among Comey’s protection attorneys in his earlier case involving alleged false statements to Congress declined to remark.
It was additionally not instantly clear wherein jurisdiction the grand jury convened, although the ex-FBI boss’s first indictment was handed up within the Japanese District of Virginia.
Reps for the DOJ didn’t instantly reply to a request for remark.
Comey, 65, was initially indicted on Sept. 25 final 12 months on costs of constructing false statements and obstruction of justice, just for a federal decide to throw out the case two months afterward the grounds that then-interim US Lawyer Lindsey Halligan was improperly appointed to her place and “had no lawful authority” to safe the indictment.
The earlier case hinged on an alternate Comey had with Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) throughout a Sept. 30, 2020, Senate Judiciary Committee listening to, throughout which the previous FBI director denied authorizing leaks to media retailers associated to the FBI’s Trump-Russia investigation and a separate probe into former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s use of a non-public server to retailer delicate emails.
“On Could third, 2017, on this committee, Chairman [Chuck] Grassley requested you level clean, ‘Have you ever ever been an nameless supply in information experiences about issues referring to the Trump investigation or the Clinton investigation?’ You responded below oath, ‘By no means,’” the road of questioning from Cruz started.
“He then requested you, ‘Have you ever ever approved another person on the FBI to be an nameless supply in information experiences concerning the Trump investigation or the Clinton administration?’ You responded once more below oath, ‘No.’”
The Texas Republican then famous that Comey’s responses to Grassley (R-Iowa) gave the impression to be at odds with feedback made by former FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe, who Cruz mentioned “publicly and repeatedly said that he leaked info to the Wall Avenue Journal and that you simply have been straight conscious of it and that you simply straight approved it.”
“Who’s telling the reality?” Cruz requested.
To which Comey responded, “I can solely converse to my testimony. I stand by the testimony you summarized that I gave in Could of 2017.”
Comey, who was fired by Trump six days after his Could 2017 testimony to the Senate Judiciary Committee, additionally testified that he “by no means” was an nameless supply about investigations into Trump or Hillary Clinton, and “no,” he had not approved subordinates to be nameless sources for journalists concerning the probes both.
But in different testimonies to Congress and federal investigators, Comey confessed to leaking info to Daniel Richman, a Columbia College legislation professor whom the highest G-man referred to as a “good good friend.”
Additionally in 2017, Comey instructed the Senate Intelligence Committee that he had requested Richman to disseminate memos on Trump’s purported directions to close down an investigation of Michael Flynn, the forty fifth president’s first nationwide safety adviser.
One other DOJ watchdog investigation into Wall Avenue Journal leaks in 2018 discovered that Comey “agreed it was a ‘good’ thought” to share info with media on the Clinton e mail scandal, in line with McCabe.
“Comey and McCabe gave starkly conflicting accounts” of that dialog, per the DOJ IG report, with the ex-FBI honcho denying McCabe’s account.
The primary Comey indictment was filed days earlier than the five-year statute of limitations was set to run out on Sept. 30, 2025.
Comey posted a video on his Substack shortly after the costs have been unsealed, saying, “My household and I’ve recognized for years that there are prices to standing as much as Donald Trump, however we couldn’t think about ourselves residing every other manner.”
