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New federal grand jury subpoena issued to former James Comey advisor in leak investigation: Report

Investigators are examining whether classified material reached the New York Times as prosecutors build a new record in the long-running Comey inquiry.

  • On Monday, federal prosecutors opened a fresh grand jury investigation and issued a new subpoena to Daniel Richman, a Columbia Law School professor and former FBI adviser, regarding an alleged classified information leak to the New York Times.
  • The inquiry revisits 2017, when Comey acknowledged giving Richman a memo describing a private conversation with President Donald Trump and asked him to relay the material to the New York Times.
  • A 2019 Justice Department inspector general report found Comey violated FBI policies regarding memo handling, though the watchdog discovered no evidence that he or his attorneys released classified information to the media.
  • In December 2025, District Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly ruled that prosecutors violated the Fourth Amendment by retaining Richman's electronic data without a new warrant, describing the government's possession as an "ongoing unreasonable seizure."
  • Simultaneously, Comey faces a separate federal indictment from April regarding a 2025 Instagram post showing seashells arranged as "86 47," which prosecutors allege constituted a threat against the President, carrying a maximum punishment of 10 years.
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Just the News broke the news in Washington, United States on Monday, August 31, 2026.
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