{"id":138774,"date":"2025-10-20T22:17:17","date_gmt":"2025-10-20T22:17:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=138774"},"modified":"2025-10-20T22:17:17","modified_gmt":"2025-10-20T22:17:17","slug":"ex-fbi-director-comey-seeks-dismissal-of-charges-cites-vindictive-prosecutionunited-states-canada-south-china-morning-post","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=138774","title":{"rendered":"Ex-FBI director Comey seeks dismissal of charges, cites vindictive prosecutionUnited States &amp; Canada &#8211; South China Morning Post"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Source: United States &amp; Canada &#8211; South China Morning PostFormer FBI Director James Comey on Monday asked a federal judge to dismiss criminal charges against him, arguing that the US lawyer who brought the case was unlawfully appointed and that he is being unfairly targeted because of US President Donald Trump\u2019s \u201cpersonal spite\u201d against him.<br \/>\nThe court filings from Comey, which accuse the Trump administration of \u201cwilfully unlawful conduct\u201d, represent his best chance to get the charges quickly dismissed and avoid a jury trial. Comey previously said he is&#8230;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/news\/world\/united-states-canada\/article\/3329722\/ex-fbi-director-comey-seeks-dismissal-criminal-charges-cites-vindictive-prosecution?utm_source=rss_feed\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"feedzy-rss-link-icon\" rel=\"noopener\">Read More<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: United States &amp; Canada &#8211; South China Morning PostFormer FBI Director James Comey on Monday asked a federal judge to dismiss criminal charges against him, arguing that the US&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138774"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=138774"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138774\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=138774"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=138774"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=138774"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}