announced having received a Feb. 4 letter<\/a> from the state\u2019s attorney disciplinary authority confirming an \u201cinvestigation pending\u201d in response to its complaint about Halligan. <\/p>\n\u201cThe Florida Bar wrote a letter to the complainant erroneously stating that there is a pending Bar investigation of member Lindsey Halligan. There is no such pending Bar investigation of Lindsey Halligan,\u201d said spokesperson Jennifer Krell Davis. \u201cThe Florida Bar received a complaint against Lindsey Halligan and, consistent with standard practice, the Bar is monitoring the ongoing legal proceedings underlying the complaint.\u201d<\/p>\n
The Campaign for Accountability had sought a probe into Halligan\u2019s potentially false statements while prosecuting former FBI Director James Comey and New York Attorney General Letitia James (D), as head of the Eastern District of Virginia\u2019s US Attorney\u2019s Office. <\/p>\n
\u201cCfA has not heard directly from the Florida Bar, but it\u2019s hard to reconcile this latest statement with the bar counsel\u2019s previous letter saying there is an investigation pending,\u201d said the group\u2019s Executive Director Michelle Kuppersmith, in a statement. \u201cIf there is no longer an investigation into Halligan, the question is why not, given that three judges indicated she engaged in conduct that appears to violate ethics rules.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Florida Bar said it mistakenly wrote in a letter last month that it was investigating former Virginia…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":181048,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[85481,85480,28,30,29],"class_list":["post-181047","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-florida","tag-criminal-fraud","tag-false-statements","tag-florida","tag-florida-headlines","tag-florida-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181047","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=181047"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181047\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/181048"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=181047"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=181047"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=181047"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}