{"id":181581,"date":"2026-03-07T02:07:17","date_gmt":"2026-03-07T02:07:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/181581\/"},"modified":"2026-03-07T02:07:17","modified_gmt":"2026-03-07T02:07:17","slug":"lindsey-halligan-is-not-under-investigation-florida-bar-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/181581\/","title":{"rendered":"Lindsey Halligan is not under investigation, Florida Bar says"},"content":{"rendered":"

Despite writing in a February letter <\/a>that it had a pending investigation into Lindsey Halligan<\/a>, the Florida Bar now says that it\u2019s not currently investigating the Donald Trump<\/a>-allied lawyer after all.<\/p>\n

\u201cIn response to an inquiry\u00a0from a complainant, The Florida Bar wrote a letter to the complainant erroneously stating that there is a pending Bar investigation of member Lindsay Halligan. There is no such pending Bar investigation of Lindsay Halligan,\u201d\u00a0the bar said Friday.\u00a0\u201cIn this case, The Florida Bar received a complaint against Lindsay Halligan and, consistent with standard practice, the Bar is monitoring the ongoing legal proceedings underlying the complaint.\u201d<\/p>\n

The statement follows a report\u00a0published by The New York Times<\/a>\u00a0on\u00a0Thursday that said Halligan was under investigation, citing the February letter that was sent to the Campaign for Accountability watchdog group, which had filed a bar complaint against the lawyer who brought criminal cases against Trump targets James Comey and Letitia James. Those cases were dismissed due to what a judge found to be the illegality of Halligan\u2019s temporary appointment as the Eastern District of Virginia\u2019s top federal prosecutor. The administration is appealing, and Halligan has since left the post.<\/p>\n

Campaign for Accountability had said<\/a> Thursday that it shared the February letter with the Times following its reporting<\/a> on the Justice Department \u201ctrying to stall state bar investigations of their lawyers.\u201d<\/p>\n

After\u00a0the Times report, I wrote a piece<\/a>\u00a0analyzing the news, such as I understood it at the time, and what it could mean for Halligan facing professional discipline. Even then, being under investigation wouldn\u2019t have meant that she would necessarily face any discipline in the end.<\/p>\n

With\u00a0the bar\u2019s statement on Friday, the situation is still murky but for different reasons, given the internal inconsistency within the bar itself. When I asked the bar on Thursday what the status of the investigation was, as I noted in my Thursday post, they said that it was an \u201copen case,\u201d which, combined with the February letter saying she was under investigation \u2014 which the bar didn\u2019t question on Thursday \u2014 left the implication\u00a0that there was still an investigation.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis is a matter that is being monitored (as explained in the statement below), it was a mischaracterization in the letter to use the word investigation. We apologize for the confusion,\u201d they told me Friday after I inquired further about what\u2019s going on here. <\/p>\n

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