{"id":322582,"date":"2025-11-25T09:55:17","date_gmt":"2025-11-24T23:55:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=322582"},"modified":"2025-11-25T09:55:20","modified_gmt":"2025-11-24T23:55:20","slug":"judge-dismisses-indictments-against-comey-and-james-over-appointment-flaw","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=322582","title":{"rendered":"Judge Dismisses Indictments Against Comey and James Over Appointment Flaw"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>A federal judge in Virginia <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=292037\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"Former FBI Director James Comey Indicted for False Statements to Congress\">dismissed the criminal cases against former FBI Director<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?tag=james-comey\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"James Comey\">James Comey<\/a> and New York AG Letitia James because interim U.S. Attorney Lindsey Halligan&#8217;s appointment violated federal law, expiring after 120 days in May 2025. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Halligan, a former White House aide without prosecutorial experience, had secured Comey&#8217;s indictment for alleged false statements and James&#8217;s for bank fraud claims. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The dismissals are without prejudice, but Comey&#8217;s case likely can&#8217;t be refiled due to the expired statute of limitations; the Justice Department has not commented on next steps.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Halligan, a former White House aide without prosecutorial experience, had secured Comey&#8217;s indictment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":292038,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[35,7862],"tags":[18264,11],"class_list":["post-322582","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-breaking-news","category-donald-trump","tag-james-comey","tag-usa"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/322582","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/22"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=322582"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/322582\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":322583,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/322582\/revisions\/322583"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/292038"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=322582"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=322582"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=322582"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}