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Lindsey Halligan

Lindsey Halligan

Former interim US Attorney for Eastern District of Virginia

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Justice Department prosecutes former officials under Trump's second term

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Removed from office after first Comey case dismissed

James Comey deleted the Instagram post within hours of publishing it. Eleven months later, a federal grand jury in North Carolina has charged him with two counts of threatening the President of the United States over the same fifteen-character image: '8647' written above seashells. The indictment, returned April 28, is the second federal case Trump's Justice Department has brought against the former FBI Director—the first, filed in Virginia in September 2025, was dismissed when a judge ruled the interim US Attorney handling it had been unlawfully appointed.

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