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Washington — Former FBI Director James Comey was indicted again, aggregate sources acquainted told CBS News, marking the 2nd clip helium volition look charges brought by President Trump's Justice Department.
The circumstantial charges are chartless but stem from an representation helium concisely shared to Instagram past twelvemonth that showed seashells arranged successful the soil to signifier the numbers "86 47," the sources said. He was indicted successful the Eastern District of North Carolina, a root told CBS News.
Comey was interviewed past May by Secret Service agents astir the post.
CNN first reported that Comey had been indicted again.
Mr. Trump has consistently voiced his choler astatine Comey since helium fired him from his station astatine the FBI successful 2017, during his archetypal term. In a September station to Truth Social, the president told then-Attorney General Pam Bondi "we can't hold immoderate longer" and urged her to instrumentality enactment against Comey, New York Attorney General Letitia James and Sen. Adam Schiff, a California Democrat.
Comey was indicted by a national expansive jury successful precocious September connected charges helium lied to Congress during grounds successful September 2020 and obstructed a legislature proceeding. Comey pleaded not guilty.
The lawsuit was dismissed successful November erstwhile a national justice recovered that Lindsey Halligan, the apical authoritative successful eastbound Virginia who secured the indictment, had been unlawfully appointed to the job.
The Justice Department appealed that decision. Halligan left her post astatine the Justice Department successful January.
Melissa Quinn contributed to this report.
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