The @USAO_SDFL "is recruiting prosecutors and restructuring its chain of command in preparation for a grand jury investigation expected to target former Justice Department officials and others involved in cases against President Donald Trump." 1/n
"The exact scope of the grand jury effort—which one of the individuals described as “special counsel oversight”—remains unclear."
"An email to Strauss’ currently listed work account bounced back, suggesting he’s switched jobs."
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"Two of the office’s recently-hired line prosecutors abruptly resigned"
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Dear God, making moves based on posts from Poso is a recipe for disaster. I hope this part is a cover/false story.
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"That chief of staff, Jim Poland, is an FBI agent on detail, who’s overseeing the office’s “non-litigation and administrative functions,”"
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Seems like folks are having a difficult time keeping the info about these grand juries and the office restructuring confidential.
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"MSNBC reported Thursday that Reding Quiñones’ office is also readying grand jury subpoenas for an investigation into former CIA Director John Brennan related to the 2017 intelligence assessment about Russian election interference."
"The Department of Justice is preparing to issue a series of grand jury subpoenas as part of a South Florida-based investigation into former CIA Director John Brennan and the probes by the CIA and FBI into Russian interference in the 2016 election, MSNBC has learned.
The investigation is being supervised by the U.S. attorney in South Florida, Jason Reding Quiñones, in consultation with Justice Department senior staff in Washington"
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"...based on a criminal referral from Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard."💥
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The recent referral from Congress is... weak sauce.
The one from Gabbard and the one from Ratcliffe are autentica salsa san marzano. 🧑🍳
I think it's worth providing some background on what's going on here, so I'll start there, but if you want to skip the background, go to post number [21] in this thread for a breakdown of what happened yesterday.
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Background
Nachmanoff is the district judge assigned to this case.
Nachmanoff ordered that all Rule 16 discovery material be provided to the defense by Oct 13.
85k pages of discovery was eventually turned over, but not all of it because...
‘A federal judge on Wednesday ordered prosecutors to turn over key evidence in the criminal case against former FBI Director James Comey, expressing concern that the [DOJ] may have “indicted first and investigated later.”
I have a thread on the motion seeking grand jury materials here
Today, DOJ defended the appointment of Lindsey Halligan as interim U.S. Attorney for EDVA.
In an order signed on Halloween, @AGPamBondi retroactively made Halligan a "Special Attorney, as of September 22, 2025" and gave her the "authority" to conduct legal proceedings in EDVA.
The order also says...
"[S]hould a court conclude that Ms. Halligan's authority as Special Attorney is limited to particular matters, I hereby delegate to Ms. Halligan authority as Special Attorney to conduct and supervise the prosecutions in United States v. Corney (Case No. 1:25-CR-00272) and United States v. James (Case No. 2:25-CR-00122)."
Halligan's appointment is the basis of motions to dismiss in both the James Comey and Letitia James criminal cases.
Judge Cameron McGowan Currie, a senior judge out of South Carolina who isn't assigned either the Comey or James case, is handling the matter.
The above exhibit is attached to the gov't's filing in opposition to the motions to dismiss in both cases.
Prosecutors in the criminal case against Fmr FBI Dir James Comey have filed a response to defense's opposition to implementing a filter team.
Prosecutors want that team to review privileged materials seized from Daniel Richman during the Arctic Haze media leak investigation.
The filing says that Comey has asserted privilege (atty-client) over five text threads of communications between him and Person 3 from the indictment, Daniel Richman, who was counsel to Comey at the time of the communications.
A filter team is the appropriate method of handling this issue.
The remaining evidence HAS ALREADY BEEN FILTERED and was provided by Richman.
The defense has argued in their opposition that, while they are not opposed to a filter team being used, they want to challenge the underlying search warrants first and also want prosecutors to be more specific about what exactly they are seeking to extract from the seized material.
Prosecutors repond here:
"The government is not asking to look at the raw returns from prior search warrants. The government is simply asking for a judicially approved filter protocol as to a small and specific subset of evidence that was lawfully obtained consistent with the terms of a federal search warrant."
Defense files motion seeking disclosure of grand jury transcripts and audio recordings.
"The record in this case raises a significant risk that irregularities in the grand jury process may have influenced the grand jury to return an indictment...
Those irregularities may create a basis for dismissing the indictment."
"Under Federal Rule of Criminal Procedure 6(e)(3)(E)(ii), a court may order the disclosure of grand jury materials “at the request of a defendant who shows that a ground may exist to dismiss the indictment because of a matter that occurred before the grand jury.”"
In Washington D.C., “Everyone has interests with the Qataris.”
"Qatar [has invested] heavily in Western knowledge production and narrative control."
At $6.25bil, Qatar is top five in foreign contributions to academic institutions in the U.S., with sources in Burmuda, Canada, Germany, and Japan filling out the other four.
Think tanks and policymakers have taken in over $9.1mil since 2019.
Since 2016, Qatar has spent nearly $250 million on 88 FARA–registered lobbying and public relations firms, 33 of those were retained in a single year.