Former FBI Director James Comey is expected to be indicted on legal fees within the coming days in federal courtroom in Virginia, MSNBC reported Wednesday.
The information comes days after the U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of Virginia resigned below stress from President Donald Trump after opposing the submitting of fees towards Comey.
Comey for years has been a goal of Trump’s ire.
The president, in a social media submit on Saturday, referred to as Comey “guilty as hell” as he raged in regards to the lack of legal fees towards the previous FBI chief.
MSNBC reporter Ken Dilanian, in a submit on X, stated Comey is expected to be indicted within the Eastern District of Virginia, in accordance to three folks conversant in the matter.
“The full extent of the charges being prepared against Comey is unclear, but the sources believe that at least one element of the indictment — if it goes forward — will accuse him of lying to Congress during his testimony on September 30, 2020 about whether he authorized a leak of information,” Dilanian tweeted.
Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, that day had requested Comey if he lied when he stated he didn’t, as FBI director, authorize a leak of data to The Wall Street Journal for an October 2016 article a few Justice Department probe of then-Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton’s e mail use.
Dilanian, who reported Wednesday’s story together with his MSNBC colleague Carol Leonnig, famous that the five-year statute of limitations on that cost would lapse subsequent Tuesday.
Cruz, in a December 2020 letter to the Justice Department, wrote that former FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe had admitted figuring out about and authorizing the leak.
Cruz wrote that whereas McCabe has insisted that Comey was conscious of his choice to authorize the disclosure, Comey “has denied this claim.”
In May 2017 testimony to the Senate Judiciary Committee, Comey had stated he “never” had been an nameless supply in information studies about probes involving Trump or Clinton, and that he had not licensed another person on the FBI to be an nameless supply.
In his September 2020, testimony, Comey stated he stood by that reply.
“Mr. Comey and Mr. McCabe’s statements are irreconcilably contradictory,” Cruz wrote to the Justice Department. “Mr. McCabe says that he told Mr. Comey of the leak and that Mr. Comey approved—effectively authorizing the leak after the fact. Mr. Comey, on the other hand, has said that he neither authorized the leak nor knew of Mr. McCabe’s involvement.”
“One of them is lying under oath—a federal crime,” Cruz wrote.
CNBC has requested remark from Comey by his ebook writer.
Trump, in a Truth Social submit on Saturday that was geared toward Attorney General Pam Bondi, stated that Comey, New York Attorney General Letitia James and Sen. Adam Schiff, D-California, are “all guilty as hell, but nothing is going to get done.”
“Then we almost put in a Democrat supported U.S. Attorney, in Virginia, with a really bad Republican past. A Woke RINO, who was never going to do his job,” Trump wrote, referring to performing U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of Virginia Erik Siebert, who resigned Friday.
“That’s why two of the worst Dem Senators PUSHED him so hard. He even lied to the media and said he quit, and that we had no case,” wrote, Trump, who had put Sierbert into the job.
“No, I fired him, and there is a GREAT CASE, and many lawyers, and legal pundits, say so. Lindsey Halligan is a really good lawyer, and likes you, a lot. We can’t delay any longer, it’s killing our reputation and credibility. They impeached me twice, and indicted me (5 times!), OVER NOTHING. JUSTICE MUST BE SERVED, NOW!!! President DJT.”
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