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Trump DOJ Prosecutor Lindsey Halligan Sent Journalist Dozens of Texts — Then Tried to Claim ‘Off the Record’
U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of Virginia Lindsey Halligan sent Lawfare Senior Editor Anna Bower dozens of text messages earlier this month to complain about her reporting -- and then attempted to claim after the fact the conversation was off the record.
Trump-appointed U.S. Attorney Lindsey Halligan faces backlash after off-the-record texts with a journalist spark a Justice Department ethics storm involving Comey and Letitia James prosecutions.
Senior Judge Cameron Currie has been tapped to weigh a rare bid to remove Lindsey Halligan from the James Comey case.
Lindsey Halligan, the interim U.S. attorney for the Eastern District of Virginia, reportedly sent multiple texts to Lawfare journalist Anna Bower related to New York Attorney General Letitia James’s (D) recent indictment.
For the record, James, who successfully brought a civil fraud case against Trump last year, is in federal court in Norfolk, Virginia, today, October 24, to answer charges of bank fraud and making false statements to a financial institution regarding the mortgage on a second home.
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‘The stupidity is unbelievable’: Nicolle Wallace slams Lindsey Halligan over leaked texts
White House" host said Halligan's reported behavior could be enough to get her "called into the principal’s office."
Letitia James tore into her prosecutor as a professional rules "violator-in-chief" for lecturing a journalist on Signal about her bank fraud case.
Lawyers for Letitia James also say they'll ask a judge to toss out the criminal case against her, arguing the Trump-appointed prosecutor is serving in the role unlawfully.