Comey floats 'tainted' FBI special agent theory while attacking grand jury process as rife with 'irregularities' [View all]
Source: Law & Crime
Oct 31st, 2025, 8:03 am
Piling on an already substantial list of motions to dismiss, former FBI Director James Comey alleged that "potential misconduct," "severe," "pervasive," and "abundant irregularities," including the possibility that grand jurors felt they couldn't leave unless they indicted him, provides an alternate reason to bring the obstruction and false statement case to an end. A 26-page motion in support of disclosing grand jury proceedings slams the charges for "facially misstat[ing]" his testimony.
Next, Comey argued that interim U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of Virginia Lindsey Halligan, an ex-insurance lawyer who "lacks any prosecutorial experience" and installed at the urging of her former client President Donald Trump, secured the rush indictment "after business hours with a meager 14 votes after an earlier no true bill" — all with the help of a potentially "tainted" FBI special agent, who "may have been exposed" to attorney-client privileged information, serving as a witness.
"Although proceedings before the grand jury are typically entitled to a presumption of regularity, the abundant irregularities surrounding the return of the indictment in this case overcome that presumption and warrant disclosure of the grand jury record," the filing said, to buttress the case for the defense to get its hands on grand jury details. "Those irregularities may create a basis for dismissing the indictment."
Again arguing that Halligan was unlawfully appointed, Comey said that the rookie prosecutor got the indictment she sought on her own "only after a highly unusual procedure, which included keeping the grand jury in court well past normal business hours" as the expiration of the five-year statute of limitations neared.
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Full headline: 'Severe and pervasive': Comey floats 'tainted' FBI special agent theory while attacking grand jury process as rife with 'irregularities'
Link to FILING (PDF) - https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.vaed.582135/gov.uscourts.vaed.582135.106.0.pdf
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