James Comey’s emotional wife and fired Epstein prosecutor daughter arrive at court as ‘problematic’ witness emerges: Live updates

James Comey will appear before US District Judge Michael Nachmanoff, a 2021 appointee of President Joe Biden, this morning.

Earlier this year, Nachmanoff let the CIA fire a doctor who pushed for mandatory COVID-19 vaccines for the military,’ Politico reported.

Before his 52-46 Senate confirmation, Nachmanoff served as a magistrate judge in the US District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia from 2015 to 2021.

During his time as a magistrate judge, he presided over the 2019 arraignment of two associates of Rudy Giuliani, Lev Parnas and Igor Fruman, who were charged with campaign finance violations. He released them on a $1 million bond.

Before that, he spent over a decade working in the federal public defender’s office.

He received his bachelor’s degree from Wesleyan University and his law degree from the University of Virginia.

James Comey was nominated as the FBI director in 2013 by Former President Barack Obama and remained in office when Donald Trump began his first term.

However, he was fired by Trump in 2017 amid an investigation into Russian election interference.

Justice Department special counsel Robert Mueller investigated the firing as a potential act of obstruction of justice.

After being let go, Comey authorized a close friend to share with a reporter the substance of an unclassified memo that documented an Oval Office request from Trump to shut down an FBI investigation into his first national security adviser, Michael Flynn.

Trump and his allies later branded Comey a leaker, with the president even accusing him of treason.

In 2018, Comey described Trump as a mafia don, unethical and ‘untethered to truth’ in his memoir.

The two have antagonized each other over the years, with Trump repeatedly claiming that Comey should face charges for ‘treason’ – an accusation Comey dismissed as ‘dumb lies’ – and calling him an ‘untruthful slime ball.’

Top Justice Department officials denied any rumors that James Comey would have a prep walk before his arraignment.

Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche and FBI Director Kash Patel both told Fox News that there will be no ‘theater’ during Wednesday’s arraignment.

‘We conduct arrests, the FBI conducts arrests at every courthouse in this country every single day of the year,’ Blanche said.

‘Mr. Comey has been directed to appear, and I expect that he will. But the noise from MSNBC and from retired agents or unnamed anonymous sources about perp walks is just that. It’s just noise.’

Patel added, ‘The mainstream media wants to take the eye off the ball and create theater.’

‘We’re not about theater. We’re about producing our results in court. And that’s what you’re going to see tomorrow start, the revelation of details, and it will be forthcoming in the judicial process as everyone in America is entitled to, including Mr. Comey, and we want him to have his day in court.’

Sources claim a ‘problematic’ witness is undermining the prosecution’s case against former FBI Director James Comey.

Testimony from Daniel Richman, a law professor who prosecutors claim was authorized by Comey to leak information, would ‘likely insurmountable problems,’ ABC News reported.

Richman allegedly told investigators that Comey never advised him to share information with the press, which goes against the prosecution’s case.

The indictment brought by US Attorney Lindsey Halligan for the Eastern District of Virginia claims that Comey lied to Congress about authorizing someone to share information with the media.

Investigators who advised against bringing the charges warned against using Richman’s testimony.

James Comey’s son-in-law Troy Edwards Jr. was spotted arriving at federal court ahead of the former FBI Director’s arraignment today.

Comey´s son-in-law resigned as a federal prosecutor minutes after the former FBI director was indicted in late September.

Edwards quit his job ‘to uphold my oath to the Constitution and the country,’ he wrote in a one-sentence resignation letter addressed to Lindsay Halligan, the newly appointed U.S. Attorney in Virginia´s Eastern District, the office that charged Comey.

Edwards was the the deputy chief of the National Security Section, a prestigious role in a U.S. attorney´s office that covers the Pentagon and CIA headquarters, handling some of the highest-profile espionage cases.

Former FBI Director James Comey is appearing in court on Wednesday for a dramatic arraignment on charges of making false statements and obstructing a congressional investigation.

Comey, 64, who has professed his innocence, is in the dock at the same courthouse in Alexandria, Virginia where 9/11 plotter Zacarias Moussaoui and members of the ISIS terror cell known as the Beatles were previously tried.

He is appearing before U.S. District Judge Michael Nachmanoff, who was nominated by President Joe Biden in 2021. The judge’s recent cases included sentencing an MS-13 gang leader to life in jail for his role in six gruesome killings.

The former FBI director was set to make his first appearance at the federal courthouse in Alexandria, Virginia to answer charges of lying to Congress in a bombshell case some have called politically-motivated.

Comey is expected to plead not guilty at the federal courthouse in Alexandria, Virginia, kickstarting a process of legal wrangling.