by John Solomon and Jerry Dunleavy at Just the News
The FBI Director who led the bureau during the politicized Crossfire Hurricane investigation has been indicted by the Trump DOJ.
Fired FBI Director James Comey was indicted Thursday by a grand jury in the Eastern District of Virginia over allegations from the Justice Department that he made false statements to Congress when he denied leaking to the media and for the alleged obstruction of justice, sources familiar with the matter confirmed with Just the News.
“No one is above the law,” Attorney General Pam Bondi said on social media. “Today’s indictment reflects this Department of Justice’s commitment to holding those who abuse positions of power accountable for misleading the American people. We will follow the facts in this case.”
The first count of the indictment accuses Comey of making “false statements within the jurisdiction of the legislative branch of the United States Government.” The indictment alleges that Comey “did willfully and knowingly make a materially false, fictitious, and fraudulent statement in a matter within the jurisdiction of the legislative branch of the Government of the United Stales, by falsely stating to a U.S. Senator during a Senate Judiciaiy Committee hearing that he, JAMES B. COMEY JR., had not ‘authorized someone else at the FBI to be an anonymous source in news reports’ regarding an FBI investigation concerning PERSON 1.” The identity of “Person 1” was not specified.
The second count of the indictment alleges that Comey engaged in “obstruction of a Congressional proceeding” because he “did corruptly endeavor to influence, obstruct, and impede the due and proper exercise of the power of inquiry under which an investigation was being had before the Senate Judiciary Committee by making false and misleading statements before that committee.”
The indictment against the former FBI chief comes two weeks…
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