All posts tagged "Indictment"

Former FBI Director James Comey responded to the Trump DOJ's second indictment against him on Tuesday after it was announced he was charged with threatening the life of President Donald Trump, CNN reported.

Comey shared a defiant video message in a Substack post following the indictment, which stemmed from an image of seashells that Comey posted on Instagram last year while on a beach walk along the North Carolina coast that said "8647."

"Well, they're back," Comey said. "This time about a picture of seashells on a North Carolina beach a year ago. And this won't be the end of it. But nothing has changed with me." ...

CNN anchor Brianna Keilar pressed Rep. Mark Alford (R-MO) as Trump's Department of Justice moved forward with a second indictment against former FBI Director James Comey that stemmed from an image of seashells that said "8647."

Keilar was speaking with Alford during a live broadcast from Capitol Hill when the news surfaced that Comey was facing a second indictment and that it was over an image he had apparently posted and later removed on Instagram of a seashell formation on a beach walk in North Carolina. The caption on his post said, "Cool shell formation on my beach walk."

"Is that serious enough to merit [an indictment]?" Keilar asked....

Legal analysts Friday are saying "this is a big one," referring to the indictment of former FBI Director James Comey as "structurally unsound" and liable to attack from the defense.

"Well, the defense strategy will involve making an early motion to dismiss the indictment for deficiencies. And this is a big one," Joyce Vance, former U.S. attorney and law professor at the University of Alabama, told MSNBC on Friday.

Vance pointed to the 2020 exchange with Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX), which is the basis for the page and a half indictment, as "really a statute of limitations extender," she said. "The statute of limitations for this crime is five years. So Comey's original testimony in 2017 is off limits. And so they've used this as a device."...

Donald Trump is probably on the verge of yet another indictment, this time in the swing state of Arizona, according to a former prosecutor Saturday.

The ex-president, who has already been hit with federal indictments in D.C. and Florida, as well as state indictments out of New York and Georgia, now faces new legal risks, according to former federal prosecutor Glenn Kirschner.

Kirschner's comments come just three days after it was widely reported that prosecutors had asked grand jurors not to indict the former president in Arizona's fake electors case. ...

Ex-president Donald Trump has already been indicted four times in criminal courts, and he's on the track for number five, and even possibly number six, according to a legal expert.

Trump, who has already been indicted in Georgia, New York, Washington, D.C., and Florida, has pleaded not guilty in all his cases. Yet a jury will soon decide if such a plea stands up in the New York prosecution where he stands accused of a criminal hush money cover-up scheme.

In what could be another local indictment for Trump, one attorney says Arizona has plans....

There's something "deeply troubling" about the recent indictment against the son of President Joe Biden, according to a former federal prosecutor Saturday.

Hunter Biden was recently hit with new tax charges after first being charged with purchasing a gun while under the influence of drugs. The new charges carry a substantial potential for prison time, but that's not what stands out to ex-prosecutor Harry Litman.

Litman pointed out one aspect of the new charges that stood out to him from his prior service in prosecution....