{"id":181549,"date":"2026-03-07T01:26:09","date_gmt":"2026-03-07T01:26:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/181549\/"},"modified":"2026-03-07T01:26:09","modified_gmt":"2026-03-07T01:26:09","slug":"florida-bar-says-no-probe-into-trump-loyalist-lindsey-halligan-reversing-earlier-statement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/181549\/","title":{"rendered":"Florida Bar says no probe into Trump loyalist Lindsey Halligan, reversing earlier statement"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Florida Bar said Friday it is not investigating former Justice Department attorney Lindsey Halligan<\/a>, walking back an earlier statement saying a probe was underway<\/a>.<\/p>\n

In early February, a Florida Bar official responded to a request for a probe into the Trump loyalist over her time in the administration by writing, \u201cWe already have an investigation pending.\u201d<\/p>\n

A day after NBC News and other outlets reported on the letter Thursday, the Florida Bar said that while there is a \u201cmonitoring file,\u201d there is no investigation into Halligan.<\/p>\n

\u201cIn response to an inquiry from a complainant, The Florida Bar wrote a letter to the complainant erroneously stating that there is a pending Bar investigation of member Lindsey Halligan,\u201d a Florida Bar spokeswoman said in a statement Friday. \u201cThere is no such pending Bar investigation of Lindsay Halligan.\u201d<\/p>\n

The bar said it received a complaint against Halligan and then followed what it called standard practice by \u201cmonitoring the ongoing legal proceedings underlying the complaint.\u201d<\/p>\n

The complaint to the Florida Bar came from the Campaign for Accountability, a nonprofit watchdog group. The group said that by falsely claiming to be a U.S. attorney, Halligan committed a variety of ethical violations.<\/p>\n

Halligan, who had no prosecutorial experience before leading unsuccessful cases<\/a> against former FBI Director James Comey and New York Attorney General Letitia James, left her role <\/a>as interim U.S. attorney for the Eastern District of Virginia in January after a judge said she was \u201cmasquerading\u201d as the district\u2019s top federal prosecutor.<\/a><\/p>\n

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The Campaign for Accountability filed complaints <\/a>with both the Florida and the Virginia bars in November, and it followed up <\/a>with the Florida Bar last month.<\/p>\n

Attorney General Pam Bondi, who previously served as Florida\u2019s attorney general, criticized the earlier news reports of an investigation.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe Florida Bar \u2018investigation\u2019 of Lindsey Halligan is totally fake news,\u201d she said Friday in a post on X<\/a>. \u201cLindsey not only did nothing wrong \u2014 she did a great job!\u201d<\/p>\n

Asked for comment on the Florida Bar\u2019s reversal, Halligan responded to NBC News Friday by writing, \u201cWhere\u2019s my apology?\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Florida Bar said Friday it is not investigating former Justice Department attorney Lindsey Halligan, walking back an…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":181550,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[28,30,29],"class_list":["post-181549","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-florida","tag-florida","tag-florida-headlines","tag-florida-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181549","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=181549"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181549\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/181550"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=181549"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=181549"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=181549"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}