Comey charge involves his role in sharing info about Hillary Clinton-related probe: Sources

Source: ABC News

September 26, 2025, 6:09 PM


A day after the indictment of former FBI Director James Comey, officials with the Justice Department were still offering few details about their case -- but sources said Friday that one of the two counts in the indictment focuses on his alleged role in the sharing of information about an FBI investigation related to Hillary Clinton.

Count 1 of the indictment, which charges Comey with making false statements to Congress, involves Comey's alleged role in having his close friend and former personal lawyer, Daniel Richman, provide information to reporters about an FBI probe connected to Clinton, sources told ABC News.

In the indictment, Count 1 says that Comey "willfully and knowingly" lied when, testifying under oath to the Senate Judiciary Committee in September 2020, he reaffirmed previous Senate testimony insisting that he never "authorized someone else at the FBI to be an anonymous source in news reports" about an investigation connected to someone only identified as "PERSON 1."

"That statement was false, because, as JAMES B. COMEY JR. then and there knew, he in fact had authorized PERSON 3 to serve as an anonymous source in news reports regarding [the] FBI investigation," the indictment reads.

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