"The Florida insurance lawyer currently LARP-ing as a federal prosecutor was installed on a statutory basis that's been rejected by three courts already. A fourth court is now considering motions to boot her filed by former FBI director Jim Comey and New York Attorney General Letitia James. No other lawyer at EDVA would touch the Comey and James cases, Halligan presented them herself to the grand jury, and her name is the only one on the indictments."
"The barebones indictment - just a page and a half stating in conclusory fashion that Comey lied to Congress back in 2020 - is so vague that it could apply to two alternate theories of the case. Was Halligan saying that Comey lied about authorizing his former deputy Andrew McCabe to speak to the Wall Street Journal? Or was she suggesting that he lied about dispatching his friend and lawyer Daniel Richman, to speak to the New York Times?"
"Neither theory of the case makes much sense, but the Richman plot seems almost comically ridiculous, since the testimony in question very clearly pertained to McCabe only. The first motion requests a bill of particulars laying out specifically how Halligan thinks this crime went down. When and how did this authorization take place? What did Comey order Richman to leak? What was the Senate inquiry he "corruptly" influenced? Which statement in Comey's testimony was false? Inquiring minds - and Jim Comey - want to know!"
Lindsey Halligan was installed as a US Attorney for the Eastern District of Virginia on a statutory basis that three courts have rejected. A fourth court is now considering motions from Jim Comey and Letitia James seeking her removal. Halligan alone presented the Comey and James matters to the grand jury and is the sole named prosecutor on the indictments. The indictment against Comey is barebones and vague, potentially fitting two alternate theories about authorization of leaks involving Andrew McCabe or Daniel Richman. Defense motions demand a bill of particulars specifying when, how, and what conduct is alleged and which testimony was false.
Read at Above the Law
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