Lindsey Halligan
Former interim US attorney; Trump’s former personal lawyer
3 findings
What the labels mean
- ConvictedA criminal jury found them guilty.
- Found liableA civil jury ruled against them.
- Court ruledA judge ruled against them or their policy.
- Watchdog foundAn inspector general, Congress's auditors at the GAO or UN investigators.
- AdmittedThey acknowledged it, or their own government's records and court filings show it.
- On recordSomething they said or did in public.
- ReportedNews reporting they deny or haven't confirmed.
- AllegedAccusations in lawsuits, complaints or from sources. Unproven.
Verdicts and rulings 2
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Court ruled
A judge found “a disturbing pattern of profound investigative missteps” in the Comey case she brought.
Magistrate Judge William Fitzpatrick flagged “fundamental misstatements of the law” made to the grand jury that “may rise to the level of government misconduct”; AP noted Halligan was the only prosecutor who presented it. A week later both her indictments were dismissed because she was unlawfully appointed. Bondi vowed an “immediate appeal.”
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Court ruled
She kept calling herself US attorney after a court ruled she wasn’t. A judge called it a “charade,” and she left.
Judge David Novak: “this charade of Ms. Halligan masquerading as the United States Attorney for this District in direct defiance of binding court orders must come to an end.” Bondi called the judge “flat wrong.”
Reported and alleged 1
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Reported
While prosecuting Letitia James, she texted a reporter covering the case: “You’re biased.”
“I’m the one handling the case and I’m telling you that,” she wrote to Lawfare’s Anna Bower, then tried to declare it all off the record just before publication.