FBI Director James Comey are expected to ask a judge to dismiss new criminal allegations that accuse him of mishandling classified information in 2016.

Maurene Comey was abruptly fired in July 2025 from her job as a federal prosecutor in the Southern District of New York. She sued the DOJ over her firing, claiming it was unlawful.

At a hearing in federal court, prosecutors defended an unusual, 11th-hour criminal case accusing the former F.B.I. director of leaking classified information a decade ago.

The Trump administration is taking yet another shot at prosecuting President Donald Trump’s longtime political nemesis, former FBI Director James Comey—its third attempt in just over a year. The newly unsealed criminal filing accuses Comey of illegally disclosing national defense information to a reporter in 2016.