James Comey served on the board of directors of HSBC Holdings until July 2013.
77 Facts About James Comey
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Statements from Trump and the White House suggested that James Comey had been fired to ease the "pressure" Trump was under due to the Russia investigation.
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Later that month, James Comey arranged for a friend to leak to the press a memo he had written after a February 14,2017, private meeting with the president.
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James Comey's grandfather, William J Comey, was an officer and later commissioner of the Yonkers Police Department.
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James Comey's father worked in corporate real estate and his mother was a computer consultant and homemaker.
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James Comey attended Northern Highlands Regional High School in Allendale.
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James Comey graduated with honors from the College of William and Mary in 1982, majoring in chemistry and religion.
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James Comey joined the US Attorney's Office for the Southern District of New York, where he worked from 1987 to 1993.
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From 1996 to 2001, James Comey was Managing Assistant US Attorney in charge of the Richmond Division of the United States attorney for the Eastern District of Virginia.
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In 1996, James Comey acted as deputy special counsel to the Senate Whitewater Committee.
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James Comey was the lead prosecutor in the case concerning the 1996 Khobar Towers bombing in Saudi Arabia.
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James Comey was the United States attorney for the Southern District of New York, from January 2002 to the time of his confirmation as Deputy Attorney General on December 11,2003.
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James Comey led the indictment of Adelphia Communications founder John Rigas for bank fraud, wire fraud, and securities fraud.
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In February 2003, James Comey was the lead prosecutor of Martha Stewart, who was indicted on the charges of securities fraud, obstruction of justice, and lying to an FBI agent.
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James Comey sold 3,928 shares of ImClone Systems, thereby avoiding a loss of $45,673.
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James Comey appointed Patrick Fitzgerald to be the special counsel to head the grand jury investigation into the Plame affair after Attorney General John Ashcroft recused himself.
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In early March 2004, Federal Bureau of Investigation director Robert S Mueller III and Comey had prepared their resignations if the White House overruled the DOJ's finding that the program was unconstitutional.
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James Comey had recused himself from any Justice Department decisions while recovering, designating Comey as Acting Attorney General.
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In Goldsmith's 2007 memoir, he said James Comey had come to the hospital to support Ashcroft in withstanding pressure from the White House.
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James Comey later confirmed these events took place in testimony to the United States Senate Judiciary Committee on May 16,2007.
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When James Comey was Deputy Attorney General in 2005, he endorsed a memorandum that approved the use of 13 so-called "enhanced interrogation techniques" that included waterboarding and sleep deprivation for up to.
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James Comey was one of the few members of the Bush administration who had tried to prevent or limit the use of torture.
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James Comey's objections were ultimately overruled by the National Security Council.
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James Comey's tenure took effect on October 1,2005, serving in that capacity until June 2,2010, when he announced he would leave Lockheed Martin to join the senior management committee at Bridgewater Associates, a Connecticut-based investment management firm.
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James Comey received a three million dollar payout from Bridgewater, his net worth estimated at 14 million dollars.
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In May 2007, James Comey testified before the Senate Committee on the Judiciary and the House Judiciary subcommittee on Commercial and Administrative Law on the US attorney dismissal controversy.
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James Comey's testimony contradicted that of former Attorney General Alberto Gonzales, who had said the firings had been due to poor performance on the part of some of the dismissed prosecutors.
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James Comey stressed that the Justice Department had to be perceived as nonpartisan and nonpolitical to function.
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Politico later reported liberal activists were upset about the possibility of James Comey's name being included.
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In 2013, Comey was a signatory to an amicus curiae brief submitted to the Supreme Court in support of same-sex marriage during the Hollingsworth v Perry case.
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The May 2013 reports became official the following month when President Barack Obama revealed that he would nominate James Comey to be the next director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, replacing outgoing director Robert Mueller.
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James Comey was reportedly chosen over another finalist, Lisa Monaco, who had overseen national security issues at the Justice Department during the attack on the US consulate in Benghazi, Libya, on September 11,2012.
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James Comey was sworn in as FBI director on September 4,2013.
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James Comey was dismissed by President Donald Trump on May 9,2017.
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In February 2015, James Comey delivered a speech at Georgetown University in Washington, DC, regarding the relationship between police and the African-American community.
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James Comey added, "The Irish had some tough times, but little compares to the experience on our soil of black Americans," going on to highlight current societal issues such as lack of opportunities for employment and education which can lead young black men to crime.
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In October 2015, James Comey gave a speech in which he raised concerns that body worn video results in less effective policing; this opinion contradicted the President's public position.
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James Comey's speech was criticized by Polish authorities, and Stephen D Mull, United States ambassador to Poland, was called to the Polish Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
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On July 5,2016, James Comey announced the FBI's recommendation that the United States Department of Justice file no criminal charges relating to the Hillary Clinton email controversy.
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On July 7,2016, James Comey was questioned by a Republican-led House committee during a hearing regarding the FBI's recommendation.
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On October 26,2016, two weeks before the presidential election, James Comey learned that FBI agents investigating an unrelated case involving former congressman Anthony Weiner had discovered emails on Weiner's computer between his wife, Huma Abedin, and Hillary Clinton.
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James Comey decided that to not reveal the new information would be misleading to Congress and the public.
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Republican and Democratic lawmakers, as well as the Clinton and Trump campaigns, called on James Comey to provide additional details.
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The investigators received additional resources so they could complete their review of the new emails before Election Day, and on November 6,2016, James Comey wrote in a second letter to Congress that "Based on our review, we have not changed our conclusions that we expressed in July".
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James Comey was broadly criticized for his actions from both the right and the left.
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On July 27,2017, the House Judiciary Committee decided to request documents related to James Comey, including the FBI investigation into Hillary Clinton, James Comey's conduct during the 2016 election, and his release of his memo to the press.
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In September 2017, two Republicans on the Senate Judiciary Committee, Chuck Grassley and Lindsey Graham, alleged that James Comey planned to exonerate Hillary Clinton in her email scandal long before the agency had completed its investigation.
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James Comey's original draft of the exoneration stated that Clinton had committed "gross negligence," which is a crime.
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On June 14,2018, Inspector General Michael Horowitz issued his report criticizing James Comey's handling of the Clinton email probe as "insubordinate".
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James Comey asked President Obama for permission to write an op-ed, which would warn the public that the Russians were interfering in the election.
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In January 2017, James Comey first met Trump when he briefed the president-elect on the Steele dossier.
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On January 27,2017, Trump and James Comey dined alone at the White House.
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James Comey's prepared opening statements were pre-released by the Intelligence Committee on their website one day before the official hearings.
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James Comey first learned of his termination from television news reports that flashed on screen while he was delivering a speech to agents at the Los Angeles Field Office.
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James Comey immediately departed for Washington, DC, and was forced to cancel his scheduled speech that night at an FBI recruitment event.
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Trump reportedly called Deputy Director Andrew McCabe the next day, demanding to know why James Comey had been allowed to fly back to Washington on an FBI jet after he had been fired.
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In Trump's termination letter to James Comey, he attributed the firing to the respective letters from Sessions and Rosenstein.
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Trump was angry and frustrated when, in the week prior to his dismissal, James Comey revealed in Senate testimony the breadth of the counterintelligence investigation into Russia's effort to sway the 2016 US presidential election.
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James Comey felt Comey was giving too much attention to the Russia probe and not enough to internal leaks to the press from within the government.
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Shortly before James Comey was fired, he had requested additional money and resources to further expand the probe into Russian interference into the Presidential election.
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On May 16,2017, it was first reported that James Comey had prepared a detailed set of notes following every meeting and telephone call he had with President Trump.
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However, in later Congressional testimony, James Comey confirmed that on three occasions he volunteered to Trump that the latter was not personally under FBI investigation.
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James Comey indicated he was willing to testify about his dismissal but only in an open hearing.
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James Comey declined an invitation from the Senate Intelligence Committee to testify before a closed-door session.
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James Comey later explained that he had arranged, through a friend, for the memo to be shared with the press in hope it might prompt the appointment of a special counsel.
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On June 8,2017, James Comey gave public testimony to the Senate Intelligence Committee about his firing.
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Additionally, Comey has written the foreword for a forthcoming biography of Franklin D Roosevelt entitled A Christian and a Democrat: A Religious Biography of Franklin D Roosevelt published by William B Eerdmans Publishing Co.
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James Comey has authored a second book, Saving Justice: Truth, Transparency, and Trust, which will be published by Macmillan Publishers' Flatiron Books.
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James Comey confirmed that the Twitter account @projectexile7, which uses "Reinhold Niebuhr" as its display name, is operated by him.
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James Comey became an executive professor in education, a non-tenured position at the College.
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James Comey was a registered Republican for most of his life.
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James Comey donated to Senator John McCain's campaign in the 2008 presidential election and to Governor Mitt Romney's campaign in the 2012 presidential election.
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James Comey disclosed during congressional testimony in July 2016 that he was no longer registered with any party.
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James Comey donated to Senator Amy Klobuchar's campaign in the 2020 Democratic Party presidential primaries; following the suspension of her campaign, he then endorsed former Vice President Joe Biden.
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James Comey is of Irish descent and was raised in a Roman Catholic household but now belongs to the United Methodist Church, where he has taught Sunday school.
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James Comey met his wife, Patrice Failor, when they were both students at the College of William and Mary.
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James Comey has said that he learned to make something good happen after a tragedy.