Attorney Patrick Fitzgerald, representing former director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation James Comey, departs the US District Courthouse in Alexandria, Virginia, on October 8, 2025. Craig Hudson/Bloomberg/Getty Images

Justice Department prosecutors are attempting to bring into court doubts that former FBI Director James Comey’s lead defense lawyer can represent him fairly, given Comey’s history being investigated, in a new legal dispute in the case that Comey’s team has already called an “effort to defame.”

Prosecutors suggested late Sunday that Patrick Fitzgerald could have “potential conflict and disqualification issue” in the case because Comey may have used the attorney to disseminate classified material in 2017 – an allegation Comey’s attorneys called “provably false.”

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