Maurene Comey’s lawsuit against DOJ over her firing can proceed, judge rules

The Justice Department had tried to move the proceedings to an executive-branch panel.

April 28, 2026

NEW YORK — Maurene Comey can pursue her lawsuit against the Justice Department for her abrupt termination as aManhattan federal prosecutor, a federal judge ruled Tuesday, handing her a significant victory against the department.

Lawyers for the department had argued that Comey needed to bring her claims before the Merit Systems Protection Board, an executive branch agency that oversees federal workers’ complaints alleging violations of civil service laws. Comey’s lawyers argued that would have doomed her case.

U.S. District Judge Jesse Furman wrote in a 27-page opinion thatbecause Comey was fired pursuant to Article II of the Constitution, rather than the Civil Service Reform Act, her lawsuit should remain in federal court.

“The Court finds that Comey’s claims are not of the type Congress intended to be reviewed within that schemebecause it would deprive her of meaningful judicial review, her claims are wholly collateral to the CSRA’s review provisions, and her claims— which raise fundamental constitutional questions — fall outside of the MSPB’s traditional expertise,” Furman wrote.

Comey’s firing last summer sent shock waves through the Manhattan U.S. attorney’s office, where she had served as one of the most prominent federal prosecutors in the country for nearly 10 years, handling cases including those against Jeffrey Epstein, his co-conspirator Ghislaine Maxwell and Sean “Diddy” Combs.

Comey, the daughter of former FBI director and longtime Trump foe James Comey, was given no explanation for her firing. She has alleged in court filings that her termination occurred “solely or substantially because her father is former FBI Director James B. Comey, or because of her perceived political affiliation and beliefs, or both.”

A lawyer for Comey, Ellen Blain, said Tuesday that “we are thrilled” with Furman’s decision.

“No president can ignore the Constitution, the Bill of Rights, and federal law and fire a career federal employee based solely on her last name,” she added. “We look forward to continuing to vindicate Ms. Comey’s constitutional rights and protect our civil service.”

A spokesperson for DOJ declined to comment.

https://www.politico.com/news/2026/04/28/maurene-comey-lawsuit-justice-department-00894831

NATALIE WINTERS.ANONS DIG

APR 28, 2026

The Media Is Hiding Cole Allen's Ties To A Far-Left Group That Advised Biden. Now The Evidence Is Vanishing From Their Website.. 1/3

The official narrative is dead wrong.

Why White House Correspondents’ Dinner shooter Cole Tomas Allen’s reported link to a group known as “The Wide Awakes” receiving such little scrutiny from the media?

The name is associated with an arts-and-music-adjacent activist collective that describes itself as a creative, pro-democracy movement inspired by the original Civil War-era Wide Awakes. That’s what the media wants you to believe.

But that cultural collective is not the only relevant use of the term: a mainstream progressive group’s own materials repeatedly reference “Wide Awakes” as a direct-action protest tactic. Including specifically targeting the tactic towards Hilton hotels, where the WHCD took place, due to their hospitality of ICE agents in Minnesota.

Though the artsy “Wide Awakes” have denied any affiliation with Allen, the media seems hesitant to probe any further. Given that the relationship was reported by Allen’s sister to law enforcement (read: highly credible), you’d think it would garner more interest. For even more proof, they’re also part of the No Kings movement, which Allen reportedly attended.

The real reason why not?

It leads back to mainstream left-wing donors, protest infrastructure and a coverup — including deleted webpages.

Enter the Sunrise Movement, the left-wing youth climate group that became famous for Green New Deal pressure campaigns and Democratic Party agitation.It has used “Wide Awakes” as the name of a direct-action protest tactic for years. The group revived the term in 2020, promoted “Wide Awake” actions against Republican politicians, and now uses the same language in a recent anti-ICE campaign targeting Hilton hotels.

Now, the same hotel chain whose Washington, D.C. property hosted the White House Correspondents’ Dinner.

• Sunrise Movement’s Democratic pipeline

• Sunrise Movement is often presented as a youth climate group, but its influence has long extended into Democratic politics.

Its own website describes the group as “the climate revolution” and says it is building a movement around climate, housing, jobs, public transportation, and community power. L

InfluenceWatch notes that Sunrise “played a significant role in the early days of Joe Biden’s presidency” and reports that, according to The Hill, Sunrise had been in “regular contact” with Biden administration officials as Biden moved on environmental priorities, including halting Keystone XL construction and restricting fossil fuel activity on federal lands.

Sunrise also sits inside the familiar progressive funding architecture.

The Guardian reported in October 2025 that Sunrise hadreceived $2.1 million from George Soros’s Open Society Foundations from 2019 to 2023.

Other reports have traced earlier Soros-linked funding.The Washington Free Beacon reported that Open Society Foundations gave $500,000 to Sunrise in 2019, and that Democracy PAC, described as heavily funded by Soros,contributed $250,000 to Sunrise’s political action committee in April 2020.

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InfluenceWatch also lists 2019 grants to SunriseMovement including $175,000 from Tides Advocacy and $28,750 from the Tides Foundation, placing Sunrise within the broader mainstream progressive donor infrastructure.

The deleted page Sunrise no longer shows the public

The strongest receipt is the one Sunrise appears to have deleted from its website.

Sunrise previously maintained a page titled “Summer 2020 — Wide Awake Actions” at a URL that now returns “Not Found / Error 404.”

Archive records show the page was captured as late as December 2025 before disappearing from public view.

What the archive shows is explosive.

The deleted page said Sunrise hubs around the country were “inspired by a century-old tactic developed by the Wide Awakes,” which it described as “a pre-civil war abolitionist movement of 100,000-500,000 young people demanding urgent action on slavery.”

==Archive

records

show the page was captured as late as December 2025 before disappearing from public view=

What the archive shows is explosive.

==The deleted page said Sunrise hubs around the country were “inspired by a century-old tactic developed by the Wide Awakes,” which it described as “a pre-civil war abolitionist movement of 100,000-500,000 young people demanding urgent action on slavery.”

Sunrise then explained the tactic==: “This group gathered and made noise to make themselves impossible to ignore.”

Then came the modern adaptation. The now-deleted page declared:

“When our government does nothing to stop federal agents from snatching us off the streets… we will shout and sing at their doors from dusk until dawn and make them hear us.”

And then the warning:

“We are wide awake and we’ll ensure that the architects of this death economy will be too.”

The deleted page alsolisted actual Sunrise “Wide Awake” actions, including actions targeting Mitch McConnell, Thom Tillis, Baltimore officials, and Cleveland figures.

Several pictures revealing protesters with signs glaring with “Wide awake” were also on the webpage.

The Hilton playbook

The tactic did not disappear with the deleted page.In fact, it was used as recently as the violent protests against ICE in Minnesota, as shown below:

Sunrise’s current “ICE OUT FOR GOOD”campaign uses the same phrase and applies it to hotels.

The campaign accuses ICE of relying on “hotels, restaurants, car rental companies, airports, universities, local government officials, and more” and then identifies hotels as the target.“Right now, we’re targeting hotels,” Sunrise says. “We’ve got two tactics: Wide Awakes (in person), and mass bookings (online).”

Under the section “What are Wide Awakes?” Sunrise defines the tactic inlanguage that should be read closely:

“Wide Awakes are pretty much what they sound like.You and your friends show up outside a Hilton and make so much noise that ICE agents can’t get a good night’s sleep, sending a strong message to the hotel that your community doesn’t want them housing an occupying army.”

The same campaign contains a section titled“Tell Hilton to stop housing ICE,” where Sunrise says activists have been “booking out Hilton hotels,” using refundable reservations, then cancelling them “last minute” while telling Hilton why.

This is atwo-front Hilton pressure campaign: physical disruption outside hotels and online booking warfare against the reservation system. The name of the physical tactic is “Wide Awakes.”

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That is what makes the Washington Hilton detail so hard to wave away. Allen’s alleged attack took place at the Washington Hilton.

“Our generation is done asking nicely”

Sunrise’s older writings make the ideology behind the Wide Awakes even clearer.

In a July 2020 article titled “How Sunrise is giving 100-year-old tacticsnew life in the revolution,” Sunrise described young activists showing up outside the homes of politiciansand then asked:

“So why are young people around the country interrupting the sleep of local politicians?”

Its answer was blunt:

“Because it works.”

The article said the tactics were inspired by the Wide Awakes, “a pro-abolition mass youth movement in the 1860s” that “turned anti-abolition representatives’ lives into waking nightmares.”

Then Sunrise framed the escalation as generational necessity:

“We were born into crisis, inheriting a failing world. We tried signing petitions. We tried calling and visiting government offices. Through it all, most politicians ignored us.Now, we’re taking actions they cannot ignore. Our generation is done asking nicely.”

The rhetoric onlyescalatedfrom there:

“This is not just an uprising, it’s a mothaf*cking haunting.”

Sunrise went on to vow:

“We will make their lives a waking nightmare.”

And the article closed bytying the tactic to abolition and Reconstruction:

“Our generation will fight for true abolition and complete the unfinished work of the Reconstruction.”

The actual question

The question is not whether the Sunrise Movement pulled a trigger.

=The question is why Allen’s reported “Wide Awakes” link is being treated as some obscure cultural breadcrumbwhenSunrise Movement itself has spent years attaching that phrase to a concrete left-wing protest tactic.

A Sunrise “Wide Awake Actions” page existed. It is now gone from the live site. Archives show it was still captured as late as December 2025. The page documented Sunrise’s use of “Wide Awake” actions against political targets. Sunrise’s current anti-ICE campaign revives the same label and tells activists to conduct “Wide Awakes” outside Hilton hotels.

Allen reportedly attended No Kings marches. Sunrise has publicly invoked No Kings as part of the same anti-Trump activist moment.Sunrise has been in contact with Democratic administrations and has received major progressive funding. And the alleged attack happened at the Washington Hilton.

That is not an art-world footnote

That is a left-wing protest trail hiding in plain sight.

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>>24549505. It’s a scam I learned years ago when I donated to Trump for the first time. The double and tripled my $250 donation and never got all of it back. Prayers are better than these sacks and Trump got 1/10th of the donation. Never again

Billionaire Ken Griffin Blasts Mamdani’s ‘Personal Attack’—Says He’s Meeting With Gov. Hochul

Zachary Folk, Forbes Staff Tue, 28 April 2026 at 11:38 am GMT-4 3 min read

Topline

Billionaire Citadel CEO Ken Griffin, said he was planning to meet with Gov. Kathy Hochul, D-NY, on Thursday,days after an executive from his company took issue with New York City’s proposed pied-à-terre tax on second homes—which Mayor Zohran Mamdani announced in a video featuring the billionaire’s record-breaking townhouse on Manhattan’s Billionaire’s Row.

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New York City MayorZohran Mamdani previously announced a tax on luxury second homes in front of Griffin’s Manhattan townhouse.

Key Facts

Speaking at a conference in Norway, Griffin said he planned to discuss the state’s “future direction,” according to comments reported by multiple outlets.

At the conference in Oslo, Griffin reportedly asked if New York planned to get its “fiscal house in order and run itself from a position of strong government that's pro-business,” before following up with, “Why do ​Americans think we can do socialism?”

Griffin also took issue with Mamdani invoking his name and filming his announcement video in front of his Manhattan townhouse, saying, “I think the willingness of a mayor of ​New York to make this a policy debate a personal attack, just demonstrated a ‌profound ⁠lack of judgment."

This comes less than a week after Citadel chief operating officerGerald Beeson suggested the company’s planned $6 billion expansion in New York City could be in jeopardy following the pied-a-terre tax announcement, according to an email viewed by Forbes.

It is unclear when the meeting will actually take place, and neither Citadel nor Hochul’s office immediately returned a request for comment from Forbes.

A spokesperson for Mamdani’s office also did not immediately return a request for comment from Forbes.

Forbes Valuation

We value Ken Griffin’s net worth at $50.5 billion as of Tuesday morning, making him the 35th wealthiest person in the world.

Big Number

$238 million. That’s how much Griffin spent on his townhouse at 220 Central Park South in 2019, making it the most expensive home sale in the United States. On April 15, Mamdani filmed an announcement video in front of the house, promising the tax would target “those who store their wealth in New York City, but don’t actually live here.” Griffin lives primarily in Miami, where Citadel is headquartered.

Key Background

New York City’s pied-à-terre tax, which is backed by both Hochul and Mamdani,would raise an annual levy on second homes in the city worth more than $5 million. In a press release following the announcement, Hochul’s office said this tax would raise an estimated $500 million in annual revenue for the city, which is facing a serious budget shortfall. In January, New York City Comptroller Mark Levine said the city could see a $2.2 billion deficit in 2026, and was looking at a prospective $10.4 billion gap in 2027.

https://uk.finance.yahoo.com/news/billionaire-ken-griffin-blasts-mamdani-153827410.html

Hoschul is stupid and has no idea how to run the city or state! Communists run the city now.

Queen Camilla Wears a Significant Piece of Royal Jewelry to the White House

Camilla also wore the heart-shaped Cullinan V Diamond Brooch on her coronation day in 2023.

BY RACHEL KINGPUBLISHED: APR 28, 2026 11:31 AM

King Charles III And Queen Camilla State Visit Continues In Washington

Queen Camilla dressed diplomatically and practically on Tuesday. Dressed in a subdued, pistachio green crepe silk dress by Fiona Clare with a matching hat, she also carried an umbrella for the April showers that descended upon Washington, D.C. this morning. One item that stood out was the Cullinan V Diamond Brooch that Camilla had pinned to her dress. The bauble was one that Queen Elizabeth wore often over the years.

According to the Royal Collection Trust, the Cullinan V was “originally worn by Queen Mary as part of the suite of jewelry made for the Delhi Durbar in 1911.” The diamond was found in South Africa in 1905 and named after Thomas Cullinan, the chairman of the mining company that unearthed it. In its uncut state, it weighed 3,106 carats (1.33 pounds) and measured roughly 3.94 x 2.36 x 2.36 inches, making it the largest gem-quality rough diamond ever found.

King Charles III And Queen Camilla State Visit Continues In Washington DC

Queen Camilla, wearing the brooch, speaks with the First Lady at the White House.

It was sent to Amsterdam, where three men worked 14 hours a day for eight months to produce nine large stones, numbered I through IX, along with 97 smaller brilliants. The Cullinan V, which Camilla wore today, is a heart-shaped diamond, one of the nine principal stones cut from the original.

King Edward VII acquired Cullinan VI and VIII as a gift for Queen Alexandra, while the South African government purchased the remaining numbered stones and gave them to Queen Mary in 1910. After King George V had Cullinan I and II set into the Sovereign’s Sceptre and the Imperial State Crown, the remaining stones were gifted to Queen Elizabeth in 1953.

Princess Eugenie Of York Marries Mr. Jack Brooksbank

Queen Elizabeth wearing the brooch at the wedding of Princess Eugenie and Jack Brooksbank in 2018.

The Cullinan V can actually be worn a few different ways, including being pinned as a brooch or affixed to a tiara. Queen Camilla famously used this one on her coronation crown in place of the controversial Koh-i-Noor diamond. She also wore it to a Buckingham Palace garden party in 2024and Royal Ascot in 2025.

Queen Camilla in her coronation crown, with the Cullinan V diamond centered, in 2023.

The Queen and King Charles traveled to the White House from Blair House, the official presidential guest residence where the royal couple are staying while in the District of Columbia, for a formal ceremonial welcome. The military ceremony is considered the highest diplomatic honor extended by the United States to a visiting head of state.

Alongside President Trump and First Lady Melania Trump, the two couples stood on the dais for a 21-gun salute and the national anthems of both countries. The President and King Charles then inspected the troops on parade, across all six branches of the U.S. military: Army, Navy, Marine Corps, Coast Guard, Air Force, and Space Force.

Later today, Queen Camilla will attend an engagement with the First Lady at the White House Tennis Pavilion. The King and the President will also meet in the Oval Office for a closed door meeting, without any members of the press. King Charles will later give a formal address to a joint session of Congress, becoming only the second British monarch to do so, following Queen Elizabeth in 1991. He will then meet with chief executives from the technology sector in the U.S. and United Kingdom; the UK is Europe’s largest tech market, valued at $1.2 trillion. Among the Silicon Valley titans already on the White House grounds as of Tuesday morning include outgoing Apple CEO Tim Cook and Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang.

After arriving at Joint Base Andrews in Maryland on Monday, the King and Queen were first hosted at the White House for afternoon tea, then took a tour of the White House beekeeping operation, and later attended a garden party at the residence of the British ambassador to the United States.

https://www.townandcountrymag.com/society/tradition/a71150821/queen-camilla-outfit-white-house-welcome-ceremony-state-visit-2026/

Iranian hackers target hundreds of US service members, officials - WSJ

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Iranian hackers have targeted hundreds of American service members and other Trump administration officials in cyberattacks in recent months, the Wall Street Journal reported on Tuesday citing a US official, after Tehran-linked hacker group Handala said it had published the names and personal details of nearly 2400 US Marines stationed in the Mideast.

https://www.iranintl.com/en/202604281196

Three layers of mistrust behind US-Iran deadlock. 1/2

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Ata Mohamed Tabri

Deep-rooted mistrust continues to stand in the way of any meaningful thaw between Iran and the United States despite renewed diplomacy after weeks of war.

After a 40-day war, Iran and the United States returned to the negotiating table in Islamabad for 21 hours of high-level talks that ended without agreement. A day later, US President Donald Trump announced a naval blockade of the Strait of Hormuz and Tehran said it would not negotiate under threat.

What the Islamabad talks made clear is that mistrust is not a single obstacle but a three-layered structure.

The first layer is structural, rooted in conflicting historical narratives and incompatible visions of the future.The second is tactical, visible in disputes over agenda, sequencing and guarantees.The third—and perhaps most acute in current circumstances—is mistrust in the negotiating teams themselves, both across the table and within each country’s political establishment.

Understanding these layers is essential to any realistic assessment of whether negotiations can succeed.

Structural mistrust

Washington often traces the hostility to the 1979 seizure of the US embassy in Tehranand the anti-American ideology that followed, from chants of “Death to America” to attacks by Iran-backed armed groups across the region.

Tehran begins its story in 1953, when the US and Britain backed the coup against Prime Minister Mohammad Mossadegh. Iranian officials portray Washington as a colonial power bent on undermining Iran’s sovereignty and independence.

Successive conflicts have deepened these narratives: the eight-year Iran-Iraq war, last year’s 12-day war, and now a 40-day conflict with the United States.

Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi recently summed up the mood whenhe said hostility would endure “as long as America is America and the Islamic Republic is the Islamic Republic.”

In such an environment, diplomatic gestures are easily interpreted as tactical deception rather than genuine attempts at compromise.Compounding the problem is the absence of any shared vision for a post-war settlement.

Trump speaks of a “big deal” but has not clearly defined what that means in diplomatic or regional security terms.

Tehran speaks of ending the war “with victory”without clarifying whether that means restoring the status quo or securing recognition of its regional role.

Negotiation without a shared end state is less a path to resolution than a continuation of war by other means.

This is one reason the 2015 nuclear deal, the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action, proved fragile:both sides treated it as a temporary management tool, not a new beginning.

Tactical mistrust

Hardline Iranian lawmaker Mahmoud Nabavian, who was reportedly involved in the Islamabad talks,called the inclusion of the nuclear issue a “strategic mistake,” arguing it encouraged US demands such as removing nuclear material from Iran or suspending enrichment for decades.

Yet Washington has repeatedly framed the core issue as preventing Iran from obtaining a nuclear weapon. Trump has at times spoken of dismantling Iran’s nuclear infrastructure entirely.

https://www.iranintl.com/en/202604281196

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Even third parties have hinted at confusion. Turkish ForeignMinister Hakan Fidan has suggested both sides have issues to discuss, but no agreed text or framework yet exists.

Tehran reportedly presented a 10-point proposal to end the war. According to Axios,Washington responded with a three-page counterproposal.

What is described publicly as negotiation often looks more like two parallel monologues.

Another unresolved question is sequencing. Iran says it will not negotiate under threat and has demanded an end to the naval blockade as a precondition.Washington expects Iran to reopen the Strait of Hormuz and present a unified proposal.

When Trump extended a ceasefire on April 21, he said it would last only until Iran’s leaders and representatives could produce “a unified proposal.”In Tehran, such language was interpreted less as an invitation to talks than as coercion.

Mistrust in negotiators

Layered on top of these disputes isgrowing mistrust in the negotiators themselves.

Many in Tehrandoubt whether the US side has the authority to deliver.

Mohammad-Amin Imanjani, editor of the hardline Iranian newspaper Farhikhtegan,dismissed Trump’s envoys as lacking sufficient understanding of Iran and failing to properly convey Tehran’s demands.

Iranian state media has echoed such doubts,particularly regarding the role and authority of US intermediaries.

For Washington,the issue is both Tehran’s authority to deliver and the belief that it is not negotiating with one voice.

The result was visible in the rhetoric after Islamabad. As he left the city, US Vice President JD Vance reportedly said Washington had presented its “best and final” offer and that walking away would hurt Iran more than America.

Iranian parliament speaker Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf ==responded by accusing Washington of failing to earn Tehran’s trust. The two narratives barely intersect.

Is a deal still possible?==

Negotiations built on three layers of mistrust are unlikely to produce more than temporary arrangements.To make progress, both sides would first need to restore confidence in the process itself.

But the deeper obstacle may remain unchanged: both sides appear to believe they still have more to gain through pressure than compromise.

Washington may calculate that military and economic pressure has not yet reached breaking point. Tehran may believe it has demonstrated enough resilience to extract concessions from a position of strength.

As long as both see escalation as more rewarding than accommodation, diplomacy will struggle.

The danger is that the conflict may not spiral through one dramatic rupture, but through a series of smaller decisions—each rational in isolation—that move both sides further from any durable agreement.

https://www.iranintl.com/en/202604281196

Former Fauci aide charged with conspiring to evade Covid-related records requests

Ex-NIH official David Morens is accused of concealing emails about potentially risky virus research.

A former senior official at the National Institutes of Health has been indicted on obstruction of justice and conspiracy charges for allegedly concealing federal records about research into viruses like the one that caused the Covid pandemic.

David Morens, 78, was indicted by a federal grand jury in Greenbelt, Maryland, earlier this month on three felony counts for allegedly using a Gmail account to hide official communications about controversial federally funded projects studying coronaviruses in bats. The indictment was unsealed Monday, when Morens made a brief appearance in court and was released on his own recognizance, according to court records.

According to the indictment, Morens sent and received emails on his private account in order to thwart Freedom of Information Act requesters seeking information about so-called gain-of-function research, which can make pathogens deadlier or more transmissible in order to study them.

After the outbreak of the Covid pandemic, at least eight FOIA requests were submitted for such records by organizations including Science Magazine, Judicial Watch and the Heritage Foundation, the indictment says.

Morens served as a senior adviser to Anthony Fauci, the former longtime director of National Institutes for Allergy and Infectious Diseases, which is part of the NIH. Fauci became the face of the Covid-19 pandemic response, gaining fans but also numerous detractors, including many Republicans and the now-Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.

Fauci, who is not accused of wrongdoing in the case, distanced himself from Morens in a 2024 congressional hearing, saying he and Morens didn’t work together closely.

The indictment references two unindicted co-conspirators. They are not charged with any crime and were not identified by name in the indictment.

==Records released in congressional investigations into Morens’ actions indicate they are Peter Daszak, a zoologist and former president of the EcoHealth Alliance, and Gerald Keusch, a physician and former associate director of Boston University’s infectious disease lab.

Morens’s lawyer declined to comment. Keusch and attorneys for Daszak did not immediately respond to an email seeking comment.==

Republicans and Democrats sharply criticized Morens at the 2024 House hearing, saying his actions showed a disrespect for the public’s right to know and that he appeared to have intentionally deleted emails relevant to the issue.

The indictment stops short of actually accusing Morens of deleting emails that were federal records,but it references a 2021 message Morens sent, saying: “I learned from our FOIA lady here how to make emails disappear after I am FOIA’d, but before the search starts, so I think we are all safe. Plus, I deleted most of those earlier emails after sending them to Gmail.”

During the House hearing, Morens said he’d never actually received such advice. Morens also said he had tried not to conduct official business on his private email account and any mention he made of deleting was about personal emails.

Several lawmakers had urged the Justice Department to investigate Morens, including Sen. Rand Paul, who sent then Attorney General Merrick Garland a letter in May 2024 citing “strong evidence that Dr. Morens violated federal law by concealing and destroying federal records.”

House Oversight Committee Chair James Comer issued a statement Tuesday praising prosecutors for indicting Morens.

“We caught Dr. Morens red-handed,” Comer said. “I applaud the Trump Justice Department for taking action to hold this public official accountable for hiding information from the American people.”

https://www.politico.com/news/2026/04/28/fauci-aide-covid-research-indictment-00895447

Exclusive: Justice Department indicts former FBI Director James Comey for a second time

By Hannah Rabinowitz, Kristen Holmes, Holmes Lybrand, CNN

Updated: 2:00 PM EDT, Tue April 28, 2026

Former FBI Director James Comey was indicted Tuesday over a photo of seashells officials said threatened President Donald Trump, marking the administration’s second attempt to prosecute one of his largest political opponents, three sources first told CNN.

Trump has long pressed for his political adversaries to face charges, including the former FBI director he sees as a key leader in the perceived effort to “weaponize” justice system against him.

Last May, Comey posted a photo on social media of shells on a beach writing out the numbers “86 47,” which critics said referred to taking out or killing Trump.

When used as slang, the number 86 can refer to getting rid of or tossing something out. Trump is currently the 47th president. Comey posted the photo of the shells, writing in the caption “Cool shell formation on my beach walk.”

Almost immediately following his post, Republicans and administration officials went full bore in their criticism of Comey at the time, with then-Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem announcing Comey would be investigated by the Secret Service over what she said was a call “for the assassination” of Trump.

The Secret Service brought Comey in for an hours-long interview with agents in Washington, DC, an uncommon step by the agency over a non-specific threat. Comey told investigators he saw the shells on a beach in North Carolina.

Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard told Fox News following Comey’s post that the former director should be “put behind bars for this” and that she was “very concerned” for Trump’s life.

Comey removed the post the same day, writing on social media that he assumed the shells represented “a political message” but “didn’t realize some folks associate those numbers with violence.”

“It never occurred to me but I oppose violence of any kind so I took the post down,” he wrote.

Legal and security experts have told CNN such a case against Comey may be fruitless, especially given the country’s free speech protections.

A second indictment

The case against Comey marks a newly reinvigorated effort by Trump’s Justice Department to convict the former director,who became a staunch critic of the president following his firing by Trump in 2017 over the Russia-meddling investigation.(CNN backing Comey again)

In September of last year, the Justice Department first brought charges against Comey, accusing him of lying to Congress over leaks to the press. The case was dismissed late last year by a federal judge who found that the interim US Attorney for the Eastern District of Virginia had been improperly appointed, having skirted approval from the Senate.

Comey’s attorneys declined to comment for this story.

The effort appears to have been reinvigorated by acting Attorney General Todd Blanche, who has picked up the pace in bringing cases that the president has publicly jockeyed for since he was tapped for the role.

The former director fell out of favor with Trump before he was first elected president, as Comey’s agency investigated the Trump campaign and ties to Russia. Comey was fired in the months after the inauguration.

Since his firing, Comey has become an ardent critic of Trump and key enemy of Republican’s in the White House and Capitol Hill.(he’s not just a critic he’s a criminal. Its obvious CNN hates Trump!)

https://lite.cnn.com/2026/04/28/politics/justice-department-indicts-ex-fbi-director-james-comey-again

>>24549952. Why don’t the English take care of their teeth?

>>24549878 remove her already