Justice Department pursues additional classified leak charges against James Comey
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Updated · Bloomberg · Apr 30
Justice Department pursues additional classified leak charges against James Comey
9 articles · Updated · Bloomberg · Apr 30
Two people familiar said prosecutors in the Eastern District of Virginia recently revived the case after Comey’s unrelated indictment this week in North Carolina.
The investigation centres on Comey’s alleged dissemination of documents to Columbia Law professor Daniel Richman and follows the office’s failed false-statements case against him last year.
If prosecutors succeed, it would mark the Trump Justice Department’s third indictment of the former FBI director since last fall.
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