The chief prosecutor in the Trump Justice Department’s case against former FBI Director James Comey confirmed in court this morning that she did not show the final two-count indictment to the full grand jury that approved the charges on September 25.
At a hearing this morning in the Eastern District of Virginia (EDVa), Judge Michael Nachmanoff, the Biden appointee who is presiding, abruptly summoned the prosecutor, Interim U.S. Attorney Lindsey Halligan, to the courtroom. Halligan had never prosecuted a criminal case before Attorney General Pamela Bondi, at President Trump’s direction, installed her as the district’s top federal prosecutor on September 20. She had never handled a grand jury proceeding until the presentation five days later, hours after which an indictment charging Comey with two felony counts — making a false statement to a Senate committee and obstructing the Senate’s oversight function — was filed in court in an unusual early evening proceeding.
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