Comey's indictment centers on truth of authorizing his friend & advisor to leak to media: Sources

Just the News ^ | September 29, 2025 11:04pm Updated: September 30, 2025 11:47am | Jerry Dunleavy

[E. Pluribus Unum]

Meet Daniel Richman: Comey's friend, personal lawyer, special government employee, and possible media leak conduit.

Fired FBI Director James Comey has been indicted for purportedly lying to Congress when he denied authorizing FBI leaks to the media. In fact, multiple sources told Just the News that Comey authorized his personal advisor and friend Daniel Richman to leak to the press. 

Richman, a former DOJ official and current Professor of Law at Columbia University Law School, was a Special Government Employee (SGE) at the FBI during the 2016 election, and it is already public knowledge that Richman later assisted Comey with leaking the so-called “Comey Memos” to the New York Times in 2017 after Comey's firing by President Donald Trump. Motivating the leak was Comey's desire to prompt the appointment of a special counsel to carry on the bureau’s Trump-Russia investigation, which proved to be baseless. Comey has described Richman as a “friend” to investigators, and Richman also went on to be Comey’s personal attorney.

The indictment against Comey came two weeks after Richman was subpoenaed as part of a criminal probe, according to ABC News.

Elements of the indictment and unnamed "persons"

The indictment sought by the Trump Justice Department and approved by a grand jury last week stems from allegations that Comey misled the Senate during his testimony in late September 2020, when he reiterated his May 2017 denial that he had ever authorized an FBI leak of information to the media about the Trump-Russia investigation or Clinton-related investigations. The indictment also alleged that Comey had obstructed Congress by lying to the Senate. 

“On or about September 30, 2020, in the Eastern District of Virginia, the defendant, JAMES B. COMEY JR., did willfully and knowingly make a materially false, fictitious,...

[ClearCase_guy]

It’s a slam dunk.

[mass55th]

Comey had a tendency to give himself more authority than he actually had as FBI Director. He also put himself in the place of a DOJ prosecutor, when he said: "No reasonable prosecutor would bring a case" against Hillary Clinton. He also claimed that "This investigation was done honestly, competently and independently."

And of course we know that was bullshit too.

[mass55th]

I’d like to know how much taxpayer money Richmond took home as a “friend” of James Comey. Looks like Jimbo set his friends up good when he was Director. How many other “friends” did he have on the payroll?

[Col Frank Slade]

Did Richman give sworn testimony to the Grand Jury ?

I would think so.

[mass55th]

He was subpoenaed by Federal prosecutors. I’m assuming it was for the Grand Jury.

[shelterguy]

“””It’s a slam dunk.””””

Andrew McCarthy on Fox said this case is pure trash.
That tells me it is rock solid since he is always wrong.

[PJ-Comix]

Will Jeff Daniels agree to serve out Comey’s jail term for him?

[frank ballenger]

A real cretin on CNN , Mark Joseph Stern of Slate, said there is a chance a judge will rule that the GOP and “Trump who couldn’t keep his big mouth shut” have ruined the Comey case by showing it was pre-arranged to get Comey and thus is lawfare and not genuine, so the judge will throw it out before a jury. He said the judge can rule it was “politically motivated.”

Arrrggggh.

After 88 criminal charges against Donald Trump through March, 2024 and one woman (Letitia James) running for office promising “I will find something against Trump that will bring him down. I will get him for you.”