The former director of the FBI, James Comey, declares himself innocent in the first appearance of the Court
The former FBI director James Comey declared himself innocent of both positions in a federal accusation related to his testimony before the Senate Judicial Committee in 2020.
He is accused of a position of false statements and a position of obstruction of a Congress procedure.
The plea was presented by his lawyer Patrick Fitzgerald, who requested a jury trial.
Comey was in court on Wednesday for the first time since she was accused last month.
He joined within the Court of the Court of Alexandria, Virginia, by Fitzgerald and lawyers David Kelley and Jessica Carmichael.
The Government was being represented by the US Prosecutor. Uu. Lindsey Halligan and Nathaniel “Tyler” Lemons, a prosecutor from the Eastern District of North Carolina.
The wife of Comey and her daughter, Maureen Comment, were seen arriving at the Alexandria Palace of Justice before the procedure.
A Federal Grand Jury accused of Comey on September 25. Comey has denied any irregularity and said he expects a trial.
The former director of the Federal Research Office, James Comey, speaks with the members of the media in the Rayburn Chamber Office building in Capitol Hill, on December 7, 2018 in Washington, DC.
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The accusation occurred a few days after President Donald Trump publicly demanded the Attorney General Pam Bondi and the law of the Justice Department “now” against Comment and other political opponents.
Comey has been a long time for Trump’s criticism about his research on Russian interference in the 2016 elections. Trump on Monday, speaking with journalists at the Oval office, Comey called a “dirty police” and said it was a “simple case.”
But Matter Comey has launched the United States Prosecutor’s Office for Eastern District of Virginia to agitation, according to Fuentes. The previous American prosecutor, Erik Siebert, resigned from the pressure of the Trump administration to present criminal charges against Comment and New York Attorney General Letitia James. Trump said he fired Siebert.
Lindsey Halligan, Donald Trump’s lawyer, celebrates ceremonial proclamations to be signed by Donald Trump (not in the photo) in the Oval Office of the White House, on March 6, 2025 in Washington, DC.
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Trump then selected Halligan, a White House assistant and his former defense lawyer, to replace Siebert and direct the office. Haligan presented the Comey case to the Grand Jury, although prosecutors and investigators determined that there were not enough evidence to accuse him, ABC News reported at that time.
Before the reading of charges on Wednesday, the Department of Justice added two US assistant lawyers. UU. Outside the State to work in the case.
Alexander Mallin, Peter Charalambous and Ely Brown of ABC News contributed to this report.
