{"id":134003,"date":"2025-09-26T13:08:16","date_gmt":"2025-09-26T21:08:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/?p=134003"},"modified":"2025-09-26T13:08:16","modified_gmt":"2025-09-26T21:08:16","slug":"meet-the-lawyers-set-to-defend-comey-in-federal-criminal-case","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/2025\/09\/26\/meet-the-lawyers-set-to-defend-comey-in-federal-criminal-case\/","title":{"rendered":"Meet the Lawyers Set to Defend Comey in Federal Criminal Case"},"content":{"rendered":"

Comey is represented by Patrick J. Fitzgerald and Jessica Carmichael. As former U.S. Attorney in Chicago, Fitzgerald secured convictions against former Illinois governors George Ryan and Rod Blagojevich. Carmichael previously served in the Federal Public Defender’s Office in Alexandria, Virginia, before becoming a founding partner of Carmichael Ellis & Brock.<\/p>\n

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Comey is represented by Patrick J. Fitzgerald and Jessica Carmichael. As former U.S. Attorney in Chicago, Fitzgerald secured convictions against former Illinois governors George Ryan and Rod Blagojevich. Carmichael previously served in the Federal Public Defender’s Office in Alexandria, Virginia, before becoming a founding partner of Carmichael Ellis & Brock.<\/p>\n

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Comey is represented by Patrick J. Fitzgerald and Jessica Carmichael. As former U.S. Attorney in Chicago, Fitzgerald secured convictions against former Illinois governors George Ryan and Rod Blagojevich. Carmichael previously served in the Federal Public Defender’s Office in Alexandria, Virginia, before becoming a founding partner of Carmichael Ellis & Brock. \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Comey is represented by […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":134004,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-134003","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-law-com"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/xira.com\/p\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/legal-news-MwH3eX.jpg?fit=767%2C505&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134003","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=134003"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134003\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":134011,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134003\/revisions\/134011"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/134004"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=134003"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=134003"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=134003"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}