Author James Comey, erstwhile FBI Director, talk astatine the Barnes & Noble Upper West Side connected May 19, 2025 successful New York City. Comey sat with Esposito to sermon his vocation and caller publication "FDR DRIVE," the 3rd of a bid of fictional transgression novels featuring lawyer Nora Carleton.
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Prosecutors indispensable instrumentality grounds seized from a cardinal fig successful the dismissed transgression lawsuit against erstwhile FBI Director James Comey, but the U.S. Department of Justice tin question a caller warrant for the information, a national justice has ruled.
The ruling is astatine slightest a impermanent setback for prosecutors mulling different effort to complaint Comey, 1 of President Donald Trump's critics whom the DOJ has sought to prosecute.
A lawyer for Richman declined to remark connected Saturday.
U.S. District Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly successful Washington ruled that portion prosecutors indispensable instrumentality files seized from Daniel Richman, a instrumentality prof and erstwhile lawyer for Comey, a transcript tin beryllium deposited with the tribunal for safekeeping successful the lawsuit that prosecutors question a caller warrant.
Richman sued past period seeking to barroom prosecutors from utilizing worldly helium alleged had been improperly seized from him during a probe successful 2019 and 2020. The probe ended successful 2021 with nary charges.
Kollar-Kotelly, whose ruling was released Friday night, wrote that it was an unreasonable seizure of Richman's spot to support a transcript of Richman's files without safeguarding them against being searched without a warrant successful a caller investigation.
However, the justice declined to artifact the Justice Department from utilizing oregon relying connected the materials successful the future, saying prosecutors should beryllium escaped to prosecute leads based connected what they learned from the files and prosecute a warrant to get them again.
Prosecutors utilized the files this twelvemonth to physique their lawsuit against Comey. The erstwhile FBI manager was indicted successful October connected charges of making mendacious statements and obstructing Congress successful transportation with his 2020 grounds astir FBI officials anonymously providing accusation to quality outlets.
A national justice past period dismissed transgression cases against Comey and New York Attorney General Letitia James — different of Trump's perceived governmental enemies — aft the justice determined that some indictments were secured by an unlawfully appointed U.S. lawyer successful Virginia's Eastern District.
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