By Allan Lengel More than 100 former Justice Department officials from Republican and Democratic administrations filed a brief Monday in U.S. District Court in Alexandria, Va., urging the judge to dismiss charges against former FBI Director James B. Comey, The Washington Post reports. They argue that the prosecution was fueled by political animus and not…
Former FBI Director James Comey is asking a federal judge to throw out criminal charges against him, saying the U.S. attorney who brought the case was unlawfully appointed and that he’s being targeted because of President Donald Trump’s “personal spite.”
John Durham, the former special counsel who investigated the FBI’s probe into Donald Trump’s 2016 campaign, told federal prosecutors this summer that he found no evidence to support criminal charges against former FBI Director James Comey.
The Trump administration has fired Michael Ben’Ary, chief of the national security section in the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of Virginia, after a pro-Trump activist falsely tied him to the prosecution of former FBI Director James Comey.
Forty-two retired judges issued a stark warning Tuesday that the Trump administration’s criminal case against former FBI Director James Comey threatens the rights of all Americans.
President Trump’s newly installed federal prosecutor in Virginia is racing to bring charges against former FBI Director James Comey before a statute of limitations expires next week.
Former FBI Director James Comey is facing backlash from Trump supporters after posting a five-minute video praising Taylor Swift and calling himself a “Swiftie.”
Maurene Comey, a veteran federal prosecutor and daughter of former FBI Director James Comey, has been fired by the U.S. Justice Department.
