{"id":135532,"date":"2025-10-20T13:19:45","date_gmt":"2025-10-20T21:19:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/2025\/10\/20\/comey-expands-criminal-defense-team-as-doj-raises-specter-of-fitzgerald-disqualification\/"},"modified":"2025-10-20T13:19:45","modified_gmt":"2025-10-20T21:19:45","slug":"comey-expands-criminal-defense-team-as-doj-raises-specter-of-fitzgerald-disqualification","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/2025\/10\/20\/comey-expands-criminal-defense-team-as-doj-raises-specter-of-fitzgerald-disqualification\/","title":{"rendered":"Comey Expands Criminal Defense Team as DOJ Raises Specter of Fitzgerald Disqualification"},"content":{"rendered":"

“[T]here is no good faith basis to claim a ‘conflict’ between Mr. Comey and his counsel, much less a basis to move to disqualify lead defense counsel,” former FBI Director James Comey’s expanded defense team wrote in a brief responding to allegations federal prosecutors raised in court documents alleging Comey used his lead attorney to improperly disclose classified information.<\/p>\n

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“[T]here is no good faith basis to claim a ‘conflict’ between Mr. Comey and his counsel, much less a basis to move to disqualify lead defense counsel,” former FBI Director James Comey’s expanded defense team wrote in a brief responding to allegations federal prosecutors raised in court documents alleging Comey used his lead attorney to improperly disclose classified information.<\/p>\n

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“[T]here is no good faith basis to claim a ‘conflict’ between Mr. Comey and his counsel, much less a basis to move to disqualify lead defense counsel,” former FBI Director James Comey’s expanded defense team wrote in a brief responding to allegations federal prosecutors raised in court documents alleging Comey used his lead attorney to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":135533,"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-135532","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\/10\/legal-news-vhqtby.jpg?fit=767%2C505&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135532","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=135532"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135532\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/135533"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=135532"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=135532"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=135532"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}