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https://x.com/ScottPresler/status/1971213146728824869
By Jerry Dunleavy
Published: September 25, 2025 11:28pm
Former FBI Director James Comey was indicted Thursday by a federal grand jury in Virginia on charges he made false statements to Congress when he denied leaking to the media – putting himself in legal jeopardy after having doubled down on his 2017 denials during Senate testimony in 2020.
Comey’s alleged leaking was already part of the FBI’s prior Tropic Vortex classified leaks inquiry and was reviewed by then-U.S. Attorney John Durham. However, he never faced criminal charges over his alleged leaks – until the grand jury charged him with lying to Congress and obstruction of a congressional proceeding.
The DOJ’s new indictment, approved by a federal grand jury, stems from allegations that Comey misled the Senate during his testimony in late September 2020, when he doubled down on his May 2017 denial that he had ever authorized a leak of information to the media about the Trump-Russia investigation or Clinton-related investigations.
Comey, fired as FBI director in 2017 by President Trump, oversaw the politicized investigation into Hillary Clinton's illicit use of a private email server to send classified information and the baseless Trump-Russia collusion inquiry.
The first count of the indictment accuses Comey of making "false statements within the jurisdiction of the legislative branch of the United States Government."
The indictment alleges that Comey "did willfully and knowingly make a materially false, fictitious, and fraudulent statement in a matter within the jurisdiction of the legislative branch of the Government of the United Stales, by falsely stating to a U.S. Senator during a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing that he, JAMES B. COMEY JR., had not 'authorized someone else at the FBI to be an anonymous source in news reports' regarding an FBI investigation concerning PERSON 1." The identity of "Person 1" was not specified.
The second count of the indictment alleges that Comey engaged in "obstruction of a Congressional proceeding" because he "did corruptly endeavor to influence, obstruct, and impede the due and proper exercise of the power of inquiry under which an investigation was being had before the Senate Judiciary Committee by making false and misleading statements before that committee."
The indictment comes two weeks after former Comey adviser and Columbia University law professor Daniel Richman was subpoenaed as part of a criminal probe.
The indictments were brought by interim U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of Virginia Lindsey Halligan. The former personal Donald Trump lawyer and White House aide was sworn in Monday. She replaced Erik S. Siebert, who resigned last week, allegedly under pressure from the Trump administration to bring charges against Comey.
https://justthenews.com/government/courts-law/comeys-legal-jeopardy-stems-doubling-down-media-leak-denial-after-durham