Former FBI boss James Komi will be in court on charges of perjury on Wednesday in Virginia.
The US Department of Justice accused M -Komi last month for the testimony that he gave to Congress five years ago.
This indictment occurred a few days after President Donald Trump called on his prosecutor general to take measures against Mr. on Komi.
The case returned the former director of the crime agency back to the center of attention almost ten years after he played a key role in the drama of the 2016 election campaign.
Who is James Komi?
After childhood in New York and New Jersey, the young lawyer worked for various federal prosecutors, including the former mayor of the foundation and lawyer Donald Trump Rudy Juliani in the high-ranking Southern District of New York in the late 1980s.
Later, he made waves as a leading prosecutor against the famous housewife Marta Stewart, imprisoned for lying on financial misconduct in 2004.
He scaled the echelons of the Ministry of Justice, but left for the private sector before President Barack Obama appointed him to manage the FBI in 2013.
His action as a director in recent weeks of the 2016 presidential election campaign, the investigation of the Democrats candidate Hillary Clinton of a private postal server, caused a storm.
Having passed with the norms of the agency, Mr. Komi announced 11 days before the day the survey was opened from the detection of new emails. Then, a week later, the case was again closed without further actions.
General Inspector criticized the handling of the Mr. -on Komi, and Clinton accused his actions of her defeat in the elections.
A few months later, he was without work, dismissed by Trump, the new president.
Why is Trump Fire Komi?
At that time, Mr. Komi led the investigation of the intervention of the Russian elections and whether there are any connections between Moscow and the campaign of Trump.
The White House said that the dismissal passed through the processing of Mr. Komi through the investigation of Clinton. Democrats said that this was due to the investigation of Russia.
This statement was given additional weight when Trump said in an interview that Russia was in his mind, acting against Mr. on Komi.
As a result of the shooting, the investigation was carried out in the hands of a special lawyer.
This led to the fact that dozens of criminal charges against employees of the Trump campaign and crimes, including computer hacking and financial crimes.
But it did not find that the campaign of Trump and Russia conspired to influence the polls.
Why was Komi accused?
The two-page indictment is not enough detail, but it states that Mr. Komi was charged in one count for false statements and another about the obstruction of justice.
He claims that he is innocent and prove that in court.
Both calculations are associated with the advent of the r -Komi through the video before the Court of Judicial Committee in Sennate in September 2020.
He was interrogated about his treatment of Clinton and another investigation to interfere in the elections in the pro-tram from Russia.
The prosecutors claim that Mr. Komi mislead the Senate, saying that he did not allow a leakage of the media about the investigation of the FBI.
The five -year statute of limitations for the charges based on this hearing was supposed to expire when the indictment was made.
It also followed Trump's social post This demanded that the Prosecutor General Pam Bondi pursue Mr. Komi and others.
What did he testify in 2020?
It is not clear from the prosecution what part of the evidence of M -Komi is used by prosecutors or what leak they refer.
One of the key exchanges was when Senator Ted Cruz sent M -Komi to the testimony that he gave to Congress three years ago, in 2017.
In it, he denied that he was a source of stories about the investigations of Trump or Clinton and denied that someone in the FBI is an anonymous source in the news.
Mr. Komi said Cruz: “I support the testimony that you summed up, which I gave in May 2017.”
Some Republicans called this response to Mr. Komi potentially false, because they say that at that time he was disputed by his deputy FBI Andrew McCeib.
They indicate the report of the General Inspector of the Ministry of Justice in 2018, in which, as they say, Mr. McCabe told the investigators that Mr. Komi authorized him to led the information in the press.
What did Trump said about Komi?
The president called on his prosecutor general before the indictment to aggressively go to some of his opponents, calling Mr. Komi among them.
The fact that the charges were brought only a few days later, critics of the president stated that he was armed with the Ministry of Justice for his own purposes, destroying independence from political intervention, that the agency is traditionally intended to support. Conservatives claim that the norms have already been violated by the fact that they consider partisan investigations against Trump.
When the news about the indictment appeared, Trump published: “Justice in America! One of the worst people, who at once this country was subjected to, is James Komi, a former corrupt head of the FBI. ”
His antipathy Mr. Komi goes back.
After his dismissal, Mr. Komi criticized Trump and wrote a book telling about the conversations in which he said that the president acted as the Boss of the mafia, asking him to be loyal.
What will happen next?
Mr. Komi will appear to the court for the charge on Wednesday, where he will be read, and he will enter the request. Then the case should go through the legal process, and later go to court.
Trump said that more accusations may arise against other politicians.
He called on the prosecutor's office to blame the Senator -Democrats of Adam Schiff and the Prosecutor General of the County -York Letitius James.
The leader of the Democratic Party Hakim Jeffris condemned his actions as a “shameful attack on the rule of law.”
