The group is accusing her of bringing federal charges against two of Trump\u2019s political adversaries despite what it describes as a \u201cdearth of evidence\u201d that either committed a crime.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt is difficult to overstate the damage wrought by Ms. Halligan\u2019s actions. In addition to unjustly and vindictively inflicting direct personal harm on Mr. Comey and Ms. James, she is singlehandedly undermining\u2014maybe irrevocably\u2014the public\u2019s confidence in the impartiality of the Department of Justice,\u201d CfA Executive Director Michelle Kuppersmith said in a statement.<\/p>\n
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Even Lindsey Halligan\u2019s own deputy reportedly raised concerns about the strength of the case against James Comey. Michael M. Santiago\/Michael M. Santiago\/Getty Images <\/p>\n
Comey, whom Trump fired from the FBI in 2017, was charged by <\/a>Halligan\u2019s office with lying to Congress regarding 2020 statements about whether he authorized leaks related to the press about the 2016 Russian election interference probe. <\/p>\n James, who successfully prosecuted Trump for filing fraudulent financial statements, was later charged with bank fraud allegations <\/a>by Halligan.<\/p>\n Both cases, as well as the charges brought against Trump\u2019s former national security adviser John Bolton, have been widely accused of being part of a political retribution campaign<\/a> carried out by the president with the help of loyalist federal prosecutors.<\/p>\n Trump appointed Halligan\u2014his former personal attorney who has no prior experience as a criminal prosecutor<\/a>\u2014to the powerful U.S. Attorney post in Virginia after her predecessor resigned after refusing to bow to pressure to pursue charges against Comey and James.<\/p>\n Trump had also publicly fumed<\/a> to Attorney General Pam Bondi in September that \u201cnothing is being done\u201d about prosecuting the pair in a Truth Social post that was reportedly meant to be sent privately. Five days later, Comey was indicted<\/a> on charges of lying to Congress, followed weeks later by James\u2019 indictment.<\/p>\n The CfA has now accused Halligan of violating numerous rules of professional conduct for lawyers, including those barring prosecutors from filing charges that they know aren\u2019t supported by probable cause and making false statements to the courts. <\/p>\n \u201cWe are asking the Virginia and Florida Bars to investigate, making clear that a government appointment is not a hall pass for unethical behavior,\u201d Kuppersmith added.<\/p>\n The Daily Beast has contacted Halligan\u2019s office, as well as the Florida and Virginia State Bars, for comment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"President Donald Trump\u2019s hand-picked prosecutor is facing calls to be investigated for bringing charges against former FBI Director…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":36467,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[1980,2842,2710,398,2853,9,24,63,122,124,123],"class_list":["post-36466","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-queens","tag-donald-j-trump","tag-james-comey","tag-law","tag-letitia-james","tag-lindsey-halligan","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc","tag-queens","tag-queens-headlines","tag-queens-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36466","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36466"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36466\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/36467"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36466"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36466"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36466"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"New](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/V4PQ3UNZMZFLHO33UU3FR6GRKI.jpg\")
Letita James said her bank fraud indictment was “nothing more than a continuation of the president\u2019s desperate weaponization of our justice system.” Win McNamee\/Win McNamee\/Getty Images <\/p>\n