A day after a federal decide stated that parts of a transcript she reviewed from the grand jury proceedings in James Comey’s felony case had been “missing,” the prosecutor who filed the costs towards the previous FBI director informed the court docket that there are no such gaps in the document.
Senior US District Judge Cameron McGowan Currie is weighing Comey’s problem to the authority of the prosecutor in the case, Lindsey Halligan. McGowan Currie stated throughout a listening to Thursday that the transcript she reviewed from when the interim US Attorney for the Eastern District of Virginia introduced to a federal grand jury was incomplete.
“It appears there was no court reporter present,” she stated, or the reporter had stopped taking notes.
The decide stated she discovered that worrying since Attorney General Pam Bondi had said that she regarded on the document from the presentation as a part of the federal government’s arguments that Halligan had the authority to safe an indictment towards Comey.
In court papers submitted Friday, Halligan gave her clarification of the “alleged gap in the grand-jury record,” writing in a declaration that the transcript the decide has “accurately reflects the full extent” of the time she spent with the jurors.
“There are no missing minutes, contrary to the suggestion raised by the court,” Halligan wrote.
Halligan went on to say that the hole recognized by the court docket – starting when she and the court docket reporter left the grand jury room at 4:28pm ET on September 25 till she was knowledgeable of the vote at hand up indictments at 6:40pm ET.
“During the intermediary time, between concluding my presentation and being notified of the grand jury’s return, I had no interaction whatsoever with any members of the grand jury,” Halligan wrote. “This time represents the grand jury’s private deliberation which was done in secret with no one but the members of the grand jury present.”