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    Weekly Student News Quiz: Bad Bunny, Typhoon, Broadway

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    Read the Indictment of James Comey

    IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT EASTERN DISTRICT OF VIRGINIA Alexandria Division

    THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

    V.

    JAMES B. COMEY JR.

    Defendant.

    CRIMINAL NO. 1:25-CR-272

    FILED IN OPEN COURT

    SEP 25 2025

    CLERK, U.S. DISTRICT COURT ALEXANDRIA, VIRGINIA

    Count One: False statements within the jurisdiction of the legislative branch of the United States Government (18 U.S.C. § 1001(a)(2))

    Count Two: Obstruction of a Congressional proceeding (18 U.S.C. § 1505)

    INDICTMENT

    COUNT ONE

    False statements within the jurisdiction of the legislative branch of the United States Government [18 U.S.C. § 1001(a)(2)]
    1. On or about September 30, 2020, in the Eastern District of Virginia, the defendant, JAMES B. COMEY JR., did willfully and knowingly make a materially false, fictitious, and fraudulent statement in a matter within the jurisdiction of the legislative branch of the Government of the United States, by falsely stating to a U.S. Senator during a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing that he, JAMES B. COMEY JR., had not “authorized someone else at the FBI to be an anonymous source in news reports” regarding an FBI investigation concerning PERSON 1.
    2. That statement was false, because, as JAMES B. COMEY JR. then and there knew, he in

    fact had authorized PERSON 3 to serve as an anonymous source in news reports regarding

    an FBI investigation concerning PERSON 1.

    3. All in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 1001(a)(2). More

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