What were the charges against Comey and James?published at 18:43 GMT<\/p>\n
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The judge’s ruling impacts two entirely separate matters. James Comey and Letitia James faced separate criminal cases brought by Lindsey Halligan of the Department of Justice. Halligan’s appointment to that role is what the judge has ruled against today.<\/p>\n
Comey, the former FBI director, was indicted on charges of making false statements to Congress and obstruction of justice. <\/p>\n
Both charges relate to Comey’s appearance before the Senate Judiciary Committee in September 2020, where he was questioned about the FBI’s handling of two investigations – one on pro-Trump election interference by Russia and another on Hillary Clinton’s use of a private email server.<\/p>\n
James, the attorney general of New York, was charged with bank fraud and making false statements to a financial institution.<\/p>\n
The federal government alleged James bought a three-bedroom home in Norfolk using a mortgage loan that required her to use the property as her secondary residence, but she instead rented it out.<\/p>\n
The charges argued “misrepresentation” allowed James to obtain favourable loan terms that would not have been available for an investment property, prosecutors claimed.<\/p>\n
Both James and Comey have maintained their innocence throughout.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"What were the charges against Comey and James?published at 18:43 GMT 18:43 GMT The judge’s ruling impacts two…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":304323,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[43,44,41,39,42,40],"class_list":{"0":"post-304322","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-headlines","9":"tag-news","10":"tag-top-news","11":"tag-top-stories","12":"tag-topnews","13":"tag-topstories"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/304322","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=304322"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/304322\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/304323"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=304322"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=304322"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=304322"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}