Overview
- Court filings that became public this week show the Justice Department filed a third criminal prosecution accusing James Comey of losing or disclosing national‑security material, citing an alleged disclosure to a journalist on October 5, 2016.
- Comey posted an Instagram video rejecting the charges and his lawyers have already moved to dismiss the indictment on legal grounds.
- This is the third action against Comey in President Trump’s second term after an earlier indictment was thrown out by a federal judge because the assigned prosecutor was not lawfully appointed.
- A separate, unrelated case accusing Comey of making a social‑media threat against President Trump remains pending in federal court.
- A federal judge has ordered the reinstatement and back pay for Comey’s daughter Maurene, whose July 2025 firing was ruled unlawful, a decision that adds a personal remedy to the wider dispute and fuels scrutiny of the Justice Department’s personnel and charging choices.