Donald Trump’s handpicked U.S. Lawyer in Virginia is planning to ask a grand jury within the coming days to indict former FBI Director James Comey for allegedly mendacity to Congress, regardless of prosecutors and investigators figuring out there was inadequate proof to cost him, sources with direct information of the probe informed ABC Information.
Earlier this week, prosecutors introduced Lindsey Halligan — Trump’s former private lawyer whom he appointed to lead the US Lawyer’s Workplace for the Japanese District of Virginia — with an in depth memo recommending that she decline to convey perjury and obstruction fees in opposition to Comey, the sources accustomed to the memo stated.
A monthslong investigation into Comey by DOJ prosecutors failed to ascertain possible explanation for a criminal offense — that means that not solely would they be unable to safe a conviction of Comey by proving the claims past an affordable doubt, however that they couldn’t attain a considerably decrease normal to safe an indictment, the sources stated.
Former FBI Director James Comey testifies earlier than the Senate Intelligence Committee, Washington D.C., June 8, 2017.
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In keeping with Justice Department guidelines, prosecutors are usually barred from bringing fees until they’ll show a defendant will “extra possible than not be discovered responsible past an affordable doubt by an unbiased trier of truth and that the conviction can be upheld on enchantment.”
Regardless of their suggestions, Halligan — who has by no means prosecuted a felony case in her profession as an insurance coverage lawyer — plans to current proof to a grand jury earlier than the statute of limitations for the alleged offense expires subsequent week, the sources stated.
Lindsey Halligan, particular assistant to the president, speaks with a reporter outdoors of the White Home, Aug. 20, 2025.
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Comey’s lawyer didn’t instantly reply to a request for remark.
Halligan’s obvious plan to hunt fees in opposition to Comey follows a transparent directive from Trump, who over the weekend straight referred to as for prosecutions in opposition to Comey, Sen. Adam Schiff, and New York Lawyer Common Letitia James.
