James Comey

Extracted Attributes

• Gender

  male

• Parents

  Joan Marie Comey, J. Brien Comey

• Education

  College of William & Mary (B.S. with Honors, 1982), University of Chicago Law School (J.D., 1985)

• Full Name

  James Brien Comey Jr.

• Occupation

  lawyer, law enforcement official

• Citizenship

  United States

• Grandfather

  William J. Comey (Yonkers Police Department officer/commissioner)

• Date of Birth

  1960-12-14

• Place of Birth

  Yonkers, New York, United States

• Political Affiliation

  Registered Republican (most adult life), Unaffiliated (2016)

Timeline

• Born in Yonkers, New York, U.S. (Source: Wikidata, DBPedia, web_search_results)

  1960-12-14

• Graduated from the College of William & Mary with a B.S. with Honors. (Source: web_search_results)

  1982

• Graduated from the University of Chicago Law School with a J.D. (Source: web_search_results)

  1985

• Became an Assistant U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York. (Source: web_search_results)

  1987

• Moved to Virginia and became a partner in the McGuireWoods law firm. (Source: web_search_results)

  1993

• Became an Assistant U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of Virginia. (Source: web_search_results)

  1996

• Acted as deputy special counsel to the Senate Whitewater Committee and was the lead prosecutor in the Khobar Towers bombing case. (Source: web_search_results)

  1996

• Became U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York. (Source: summary, DBPedia, web_search_results)

  2002-01

• Became the United States Deputy Attorney General during the George W. Bush administration. (Source: summary, DBPedia, web_search_results)

  2003-12

• Left the U.S. Department of Justice to become a Senior Vice President and General Counsel for Lockheed Martin. (Source: summary, DBPedia)

  2005-08

• Became General Counsel at Bridgewater Associates. (Source: summary, DBPedia)

  2010

• Confirmed as FBI Director by the U.S. Senate with a vote of 93-1. (Source: web_search_results)

  2013-07-29

• Appointed as the 7th Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) by President Barack Obama. (Source: summary, DBPedia, web_search_results)

  2013-09-04

• Described himself as politically unaffiliated. (Source: DBPedia)

  2016

• Oversaw the FBI's investigation into Hillary Clinton's email controversy, reopening the investigation less than two weeks before the presidential election. (Source: summary, DBPedia)

  2016

• Fired by President Donald Trump from his position as FBI Director. (Source: summary, DBPedia, web_search_results)

  2017-05-09

• Arranged for a memo detailing a private meeting with President Trump to be leaked to the press, which became part of the Mueller investigation. (Source: summary, DBPedia)

  2017-05

• Department of Justice Inspector General Michael E. Horowitz released a report criticizing Comey's actions during the 2016 Clinton email investigation. (Source: DBPedia)

  2018-06-14

• The Office of the Inspector General found that Comey's retention, handling, and dissemination of memos violated DOJ and FBI policies. (Source: summary, DBPedia)

  2019-08

• Inspector General Horowitz released a report finding no political bias against Trump by Comey or other FBI officials. (Source: summary, DBPedia)

  2019-12

Web Search Results

• James Comey - Simple English Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

  James Brien "Jim" Comey, Jr. (born December 14, 1960) is an American lawyer. He was the 7th Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) from September 4, 2013 until May 9, 2017 when he was fired by President Donald Trump. [...] | James Comey | | --- | | | | | | | | 7th Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation | | | In office September 4, 2013 – May 9, 2017 | | | President | Barack Obama Donald Trump | | Deputy | Sean Joyce") Mark Giuliano") Andrew McCabe") | | Preceded by | Robert Mueller | | Succeeded by | Andrew McCabe (Acting) | | United States Deputy Attorney General | | | In office December 9, 2003 – August 15, 2005 | | | President | George W. Bush | | Preceded by | Larry Thompson") | [...] Comey was the U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York") from January 2002 to December 2003, and later, the United States Deputy Attorney General, from December 2003 to August 2005. As Deputy Attorney General, Comey was the second-highest-ranking official in the United States Department of Justice (DOJ), and ran its day-to-day operations. ## Early life [change | change source]

• James Comey | Biography & Facts - Britannica

  James Comey (born December 14, 1960, Yonkers, New York, U.S.) is a U.S. attorney and law enforcement official who served as director (2013–17) of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI). ## Early life [...] As a young lawyer, Comey worked mostly in the offices of United States attorneys (federal prosecuting attorneys with regional jurisdiction). In 1987 he became an assistant U.S. attorney for the Southern District of New York, serving under Rudolph W. Giuliani. In 1993 he moved to Virginia and became a partner in the McGuireWoods law firm. Returning to government service, Comey became an assistant U.S. attorney for the Eastern District of Virginia in 1996. In 2002 he was promoted to U.S. attorney

• James Comey - Wikipedia

  Comey was the United States attorney for the Southern District of New York, from January 2002 to the time of his confirmation as Deputy Attorney General on December 11, 2003. Among his first tasks was to take over the investigation into President Bill Clinton's controversial pardon of Marc Rich, which Comey concluded involved no illegality. In November 2002, he led the prosecution of three men involved in one of the largest identity fraud cases in American history. The fraud had lasted two [...] Comey was born in Yonkers, New York, on December 14, 1960, to parents Joan Marie and J. Brien Comey. His grandfather, William J. Comey, was an officer and later commissioner of the Yonkers Police Department. The family moved to Allendale, New Jersey, in the early 1970s. His father worked in corporate real estate and his mother was a computer consultant and homemaker. Comey is of Irish heritage. He attended Northern Highlands Regional High School in Allendale. In 1977, he and his brother were [...] ### Assistant U.S. attorney From 1996 to 2001, Comey was Managing Assistant U.S. Attorney in charge of the Richmond Division of the United States attorney for the Eastern District of Virginia. In 1996, Comey acted as deputy special counsel to the Senate Whitewater Committee. He also was the lead prosecutor in the case concerning the 1996 Khobar Towers bombing in Saudi Arabia. While in Richmond, Comey was an adjunct professor of law at the University of Richmond School of Law.

• James Comey - Ballotpedia

  Northern Highlands Regional High School College of William and Mary University of Chicago Law School ## Contents James Brien Comey Jr. was the seventh director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI). He was nominated by President Barack Obama (D) and confirmed by the U.S. Senate on July 29, 2013, by a vote of 93-1.

• Deputy Attorney General: James B. Comey - Department of Justice

  Mr. Comey was U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York from January 2002 to the time of his confirmation as Deputy Attorney General. As U.S. Attorney, he oversaw several terrorism cases and supervised prosecutions of executives of WorldCom, Adelphia, and Imclone on fraud and securities-related charges. He also created a specialized unit dedicated to prosecuting international drug cartels. [...] Office of the Deputy Attorney General Deputy Attorney General: James B. Comey James B. Comey was the 31st Deputy Attorney General of the United States. He served as the Department’s second-ranking official from December 2003 to August 2005. [...] A native of Yonkers, New York, Mr. Comey was educated at the College of William & Mary (B.S. with Honors, 1982) and the University of Chicago Law School (J.D., 1985). Upon graduating from law school, he served as a law clerk for then-United States District Judge John M. Walker Jr. in Manhattan, and later worked for Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher in its New York office. U.S. Department of Justice950 Pennsylvania Avenue NWWashington DC 20530

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• Gender

  male

• Educated At

  College of William & Mary

• Instance Of

  Q5

• Occupation

  lawyer

• Citizenship

  United States

• Date Of Birth

  12/14/1960

• Place Of Birth

  Yonkers

James Brien Comey Jr. (/ˈkoʊmi/; born December 14, 1960) is an American lawyer who was the seventh director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) from 2013 until his dismissal in May 2017. Comey was a registered Republican for most of his adult life; however, in 2016, he described himself as unaffiliated. During the administration of President George W. Bush, Comey was the U.S. attorney for the Southern District of New York from January 2002 to December 2003 and later the United States deputy attorney general from December 2003 to August 2005. In August 2005, Comey left the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) to become a senior vice president of Lockheed Martin as general counsel. In 2010, he became general counsel at Bridgewater Associates. In early 2013, he left Bridgewater to become a senior research scholar and Hertog fellow on national security law at Columbia Law School. He served on the board of directors of HSBC Holdings until July 2013. In September 2013, President Barack Obama appointed Comey to the position of Director of the FBI. In that capacity, he was responsible for overseeing the FBI's investigation of the Hillary Clinton email controversy. His role in the 2016 U.S. presidential election was highly controversial. Some analysts and some Clinton supporters claim his decisions shortly before the 2016 election might have cost her the presidency, particularly his decision to reopen the investigation into her emails less than two weeks before the election. On June 14, 2018, DOJ inspector general Michael E. Horowitz released his report on the FBI's handling of the Clinton email investigation, which criticized Comey's actions during the 2016 election. President Donald Trump fired Comey on May 9, 2017. Statements from Trump and the White House suggested that Comey had been fired to ease the "pressure" Trump was under due to the Russia investigation. Later that month, Comey arranged for a friend to leak to the press a memo he had written after a February 14, 2017 private meeting with the president. It said Trump had asked him to end the FBI's investigation into Michael Flynn, the former national security advisor. The dismissal, various memos detailing meetings with Trump, and Comey's subsequent Congressional testimony in June that same year were interpreted by some commentators as evidence of obstruction of justice by the president and became part of the Mueller investigation. Inspector General Horowitz found that Comey violated FBI policy regarding the memos; however, it was added that there's "no evidence that Comey or his attorneys released any of the classified information contained in any of the memos to members of the media." The Department of Justice declined to prosecute Comey. In August 2019, the Office of the Inspector General found Comey's retention, handling and dissemination of the memos violated DOJ policies, FBI policies, and his FBI employment agreement. In December 2019, Horowitz released a report finding no political bias against Trump by Comey or other FBI officials.