Magistrate Judge William Fitzpatrick said the government’s handling of the case raises “genuine issues of misconduct.”
A federal judge in Virginia on Monday ordered prosecutors to turn over grand jury materials in the criminal case against former FBI Director James Comey after he found the government’s handling of the case raises “genuine issues of misconduct” that could result in dismissal of the charges.
Magistrate Judge William Fitzpatrick said in his ruling that the type of relief Comey’s lawyers are seeking is “rarely granted” but that “the record points to a disturbing pattern of profound investigative missteps, missteps that led an FBI agent and a prosecutor to potentially undermine the integrity of the grand jury proceeding.” The ruling directed the government to turn over the material to Comey’s team by the end of the day.
Among the missteps Fitzpatrick said he found in reviewing the grand jury proceedings in the case were statements to the panel by acting U.S. Attorney Lindsey Halligan, a former personal lawyer to Donald Trump who had no prosecutorial experience.
It actually kinda is. He should be on vacation right now sipping a mojito as the orange turd rots in jail. But we no longer live in reality. So the fact that he might not be persecuted for doing nothing wrong actually is pretty shocking.