Former FBI Director James Comey could be indicted in the coming days, according to multiple reports.
President Donald Trump appointed Lindsey Halligan, a White House aide and his former personal attorney, on Monday to lead the U.S. attorney’s office in the Eastern District of Virginia, which is running the investigation. Erik Siebert, who public reports indicate has family ties to Comey, resigned Friday after Trump called for his removal.
One portion of the indictment accuses Comey of lying to Congress during his Sept. 30, 2020 testimony, though its full scope remains unclear, MSNBC reported Wednesday, citing three sources familiar with the matter.
Prosecutors are “nearing a decision” about perjury charges against Comey related to testimony about his probe into alleged Russian interference in the 2016 election, CNN also reported Wednesday. Halligan plans to ask a grand jury to indict Comey in the coming days, ABC News reported.
The five-year statute of limitations for perjury charges related to his congressional testimony expires in less than a week on Sept. 30.
The White House referred the Daily Caller News Foundation to the Department of Justice (DOJ), which declined to comment. The U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of Virginia did not respond to a request for comment.
Siebert could not be reached. Comey, who the DCNF contacted through his publisher, also could not be reached.
Several reports indicated Siebert’s departure was due to his failure to bring charges against New York Attorney General Letitia James, who launched a civil fraud case against Trump in 2022.
Siebert’s office also faced “a roadblock” in its Comey investigation after prosecutors subpoenaed Columbia law professor Daniel C. Richman, a friend of Comey, as part of an investigation into whether he was authorized to leak information to the media, The New York Times reported Friday. Richman’s statements were not helpful in building a case that Comey lied under oath, two anonymous sources told the NYT.
While Siebert was working on the case against Comey, a member of his family has close ties to the former FBI director.
Siebert’s father in law, Richard Cullen, is the godfather of one of Comey’s daughters. Cullen and Comey worked together from 1993 to 1996 at the McGuireWoods law firm, according to The Washington Post.
Cullen told the Richmond Times Dispatch in 2013 that Comey would “be a great director.”
Former Vice President Mike Pence also hired Cullen as his attorney to handle inquiries in special counsel Robert Mueller’s Russia probe, according to NPR.
Former FBI Director James Comey, for years the target of President Trump’s ire, is expected to be indicted in the coming days in the Eastern District of Virginia, where a prosecutor who opposed bringing the case was recently fired, three sources familiar with the matter told…
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Trump criticized Attorney General Pam Bondi on Truth Social Saturday over lack of progress on investigations into Comey, along with James and Democratic Sen. Adam Schiff of California.
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