Federal prosecutors are now signaling they may remove James Comey’s attorney Patrick Fitzgerald as his lead counsel because of his involvement in the former FBI Director’s leaks of classified information to the media through Daniel Richman.
A grand jury in the Eastern District of Virginia indicted former FBI Director James Comey last month. He was indicted on two counts – false statements and obstruction of a congressional proceeding.
If convicted, James Comey is facing up to five years in prison.
Comey’s case was assigned to US District Judge Michael Nachmanoff, a Biden appointee.
James Comey’s lawyer, Patrick Fitzgerald, entered the not guilty plea on his client’s behalf earlier this month. The trial date was set for January 5.
Patrick Fitzgerald, a former US Attorney for the North District of Illinois, was also involved in Comey’s illegal leaks to the media back in 2017.
Newly declassified memos reveal James Comey’s secret media mole Daniel Richman leaked classified information to The New York Times’s Michael Schmidt to help push for a special counsel in May 2017.
It was previously reported that James Comey penned nine memos stemming from his conversations with President Trump – and then leaked them through his Columbia University law professor ‘friend’ Daniel Richman.
The leaks ultimately worked. On May 17, 2017, then-Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein appointed Robert Mueller to serve as Special Counsel to investigate the Trump-Russia collusion hoax.
On Sunday evening, DOJ prosecutors told the court that Comey used Patrick Fitzgerald to “improperly disclose classified information.”
“Based on publicly disclosed information, the defendant used current lead defense counsel to improperly disclose classified information,” Eastern District of Virginia prosecutors Tyler Lemons and Gabriel Diaz wrote in a court filing on Sunday, according to Politico. “This fact raises a question of conflict and disqualification for current lead defense counsel.”
Politico reported:
Federal prosecutors signaled Sunday that they may seek to boot Patrick Fitzgerald, James Comey’s lead defense attorney, because of Fitzgerald’s alleged involvement in disclosures to the media shortly after President Donald Trump fired Comey as FBI director in 2017.
In a submission Sunday evening, prosecutors suggested to U.S. District Judge Michael Nachmanoff that Fitzgerald, Comey’s lawyer and close friend, could have an insurmountable conflict of interest as a result of the disclosures.
Fitzgerald is representing Comey in a criminal case ordered up by Trump and brought last month in Virginia, where Comey faces two felony charges for making a false statement and obstructing a federal proceeding.
The prosecutors asked the judge to quickly approve a proposal for a “filter team” of lawyers to sift through evidence in Comey’s criminal case that could clarify Fitzgerald’s role in the eight-year-old disclosures — without breaching Comey’s attorney-client privilege.
Update: Patrick Fitzgerald fired back at the DOJ.
JUST IN: Comey lawyer Pat Fitzgerald fires back at prosecutors, accusing them of seeking to “defame” him through “provably false” allegations he and Comey disclosed classified info to media after Trump fired Comey in 2017. More w/@kyledcheney https://t.co/qJ8rmnuQ82
— Josh Gerstein (@joshgerstein) October 20, 2025
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