Comey Associate Challenges DOJ Over Long-Seized Files

A longtime confidant of former FBI Director James Comey is suing the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ). Daniel Richman seeks to prevent federal investigators from accessing materials they seized from him in 2018. Richman, a Columbia Law School professor, served as an intermediary for Comey in 2017. He gave memos written by Comey about conversations with then-President Donald Trump to *The New York Times*. The legal filing aims to block the DOJ from reviewing the seized records. These materials remain in government custody but under a court-ordered seal, meaning officials cannot examine them. The dispute centers on whether the documents are protected by legal privileges. The Justice Department seized the materials as part of an investigation into the leak of the Comey memos. That probe concluded without any criminal charges.