Former FBI Director James Comey is expected to soon be indicted for allegedly lying to Congress, several reports Wednesday afternoon confirmed.
U.S. Attorney Lindsey Halligan in Virginia is planning to ask a grand jury in the next few days to indict Comey, despite prosecutors saying there was not enough evidence to charge the former director, ABC News reported .
Halligan was President Donald Trump’s former personal attorney and was tapped to serve in Virginia’s Eastern District and was sworn in on Monday by Attorney General Pam Bondi, Politico reported .
According to sources familiar with a memo, prosecutors asked Halligan to decline bringing perjury and obstruction charges against Comey.
It comes after prosecutors at the Department of Justice failed to establish probable cause of