Former FBI Director James Comey was indicted Thursday by a federal grand jury in Virginia on charges of making a false statement and obstruction for past testimony to Congress , just days after President Donald Trump pressed Attorney General Pam Bondi to prosecute Comey.

Comey is accused of lying during testimony at the Senate Judiciary Committee on Sept. 30, 2020, when he denied authorizing someone else at the FBI to be an anonymous source in news reports regarding an investigation of Hillary Clinton and her emails when she was the Democratic presidential nominee in 2016.

"The charges as alleged in this case represent a breach of the public trust at an extraordinary level," said interim U.S. Attorney Lindsey Halligan of the Eastern District of Virginia , whose office will pr

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