The Justice Department will not prosecute former FBI Director James Comey for leaking classified information, according to news reports.
Fox News and NBC News report each cited unnamed sources.
Comey had written memos to memorialize his dealings with President Donald Trump in the days before he was fired. Fox News noted Comey then passed them to a friend, Columbia University Law Professor Daniel Richman, who turned them over to The New York Times. Comey had acknowledged the arrangement during congressional testimony
The Wall Street Journal reported last year the memos contained various degrees of classified information. Comey reportedly redacted information that he believed to be classified.
And an internal review, conducted by DOJ Inspector General Michael Horowitz, had referred Comey for potential prosecution.
But now the DOJ has passed on it, according to Fox News.
“Everyone at the DOJ involved in the decision said it wasn’t a close call,” one official said. “They all thought this could not be prosecuted.”
Richman is now serving as an attorney to Comey. He told Fox News he had “no comment” on the decision not to prosecute.
Meanwhile, Fox News said the release of Horowitz’s report is imminent.
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