Posted on 10/18/2025 12:48:15 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
According to the Inspector General Report, several memos were shared with the Columbia Law Professor Daniel Richman.
Richman is expected to be a central witness in the pending federal prosecution against Comey in Virginia for allegedly lying about his role in media leaks.
The Inspector General also found attorney Patrick Fitzgerald received multiple Comey memos about the Trump meetings, including at least one memo containing classified information.
Fitzgerald is now representing Comey in the Virginia case.
Question: Is there a conflict, or the appearance of a conflict? Does it cross any legal or ethical red lines?
Richman has not responded to our team's multiple requests for comment.
Seeking additional comment.
2019 IG report 👇
"Comey sends scanned copies of Memos 2, 4, 6, and 7 from his personal email account to the personal email account of one of his attorneys, Patrick Fitzgerald.”
“The FBI determined that Memos 1 and 3 contained information classified at the “SECRET” level, and that Memos 2 and 7 contained small amounts of information classified at the “CONFIDENTIAL” level. The FBI designated Memos 4, 5, and 6 as unclassified, “For Official Use Only.”
“By not safeguarding sensitive information obtained during the course of his (Comey's) @FBI employment, and by using it to create public pressure for official action, Comey set a dangerous example…”
I can still remember....He left the meeting with Trump and while driving back to his office, he wrote down everything that happened at the meeting...including the inference that Flynn should be let off the hook. IIRC, he also classified the memos...including asking someone at which level to classify. At some point, he would declassify all or some of the memos.
And he scanned classified documents on unapproved equipment connected to who knows what? We’d be practically hung for that just for pleading out much less if we wanted to go to trial. These guys are real pieces of work.
I don’t know, how about unindicted co-conspirator for a start?
Don't forget the Libs’ favorite Lawfare trick, let’s go after his law license!
I don’t know, how about unindicted co-conspirator for a start?
Don't forget the Libs’ favorite Lawfare trick, let’s go after his law license!
And he shared those memos after he’d already been fired. Makes his crime even worse.
An internal investigation by the Department of Justice Office of the Inspector General (IG) confirmed that after he’d been fired, former FBI Director James Comey sent memos of his conversations with then-President Trump to his personal attorney, Patrick Fitzgerald, using a personal email account.
Some of these memos were retroactively designated as containing classified information.
The IG report, released in August 2019, found that Comey sent four of the seven memos to Fitzgerald via his personal email account shortly after being fired in May 2017.
The FBI later determined that two of the four memos Comey sent to Fitzgerald contained information classified as “confidential”—the lowest level of classification. The other two were designated as unclassified but “For Official Use Only”.
Comey’s actions were found to be in violation of FBI and Department of Justice policies.
Despite the violation of policy, the DOJ declined to prosecute Comey over the handling of the memos. The IG’s office referred its findings to prosecutors, who opted not to press charges.
The report was critical of Comey’s conduct, but it did not find evidence that Comey or his attorneys had released the classified information to the media. A separate memo, which was not classified, was given to a friend and shared with a reporter to prompt the appointment of a special counsel.
Patrick Fitzgerald, a prominent former federal prosecutor and long-time colleague of Comey, was hired as part of Comey’s legal defense team in May 2017.
In September 2025, Comey was indicted on separate charges related to false statements he allegedly made to a Senate committee in 2020.
Fitzgerald is representing him in that case as well.
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