by Josh Christenson at New York Post
A federal grand jury properly voted on the indictment of ex-FBI boss James Comey in September after prosecutors mistakenly told a judge that not all jurors saw the final version of the charges, according to a new court transcript.
Interim US Attorney Lindsey Halligan submitted the transcript the day after a tense hearing in Alexandria, Va., on Wednesday, during which she had indicated only “the foreperson and another grand juror” handed up the indictment to US Magistrate Judge Lindsey Vaala.
But a court filing from the US Attorney’s Office in the Eastern District of Virginia on Thursday noted the transcript of the Sept. 25 proceeding before Vaala “conclusively refutes” that there was an issue with the process “and establishes that the grand jury voted on — and true-billed — the two-count indictment.”
“[A]ny assertion that the grand jury ‘never voted on the two-count indictment’ is contradicted by the official transcript,” Halligan’s team responded in the new court papers — directly contradicting claims from Comey’s defense team in court that the charges were void…
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