{"id":141838,"date":"2020-02-15T04:21:18","date_gmt":"2020-02-15T04:21:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bnreport.com\/justice-department-drops-case-against-former-acting-fbi-director-mccabe\/"},"modified":"2020-02-15T04:21:18","modified_gmt":"2020-02-15T04:21:18","slug":"justice-department-drops-case-against-former-acting-fbi-director-mccabe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bnreport.com\/en\/justice-department-drops-case-against-former-acting-fbi-director-mccabe\/","title":{"rendered":"Justice Department Drops Case Against Former Acting FBI Director McCabe"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Department of Justice (DOJ) will not pursue charges against former Acting FBI Director Andrew McCabe for allegedly lying during an internal investigation.<\/p>\n

U.S. Attorney Timothy Shea, in a letter<\/a> to McCabes lawyers, wrote that the DOJ \u201chas decided not to pursue criminal charges\u201d over whether the former top law enforcement official misled investigators who were probing how the FBI and DOJ handled matters associated with the 2016 election.<\/p>\n

\u201cBased on the totality of the circumstances and all of the information known to the government at this time,\u201d the letter added, \u201cwe consider this matter closed.\u201d Now, according to the officials, \u201cno charges will be brought against him based on the facts underlying the Office of the Inspector Generals April 2018 report.\u201d<\/p>\n

McCabe served in place of former FBI Director James Comey, who was fired by President Donald Trump in May 2017. He only served for several months until Christopher Wray took over in August of that year.<\/p>\n

McCabe had filed a civil lawsuit against the Justice Department and the FBI, arguing that his dismissal was politically motivated. It named Attorney General Bill Barr and Wray as defendants, saying that McCabe faced \u201cunlawful retaliation for his refusal to pledge allegiance to a single man,\u201d which may be in reference to Trump.<\/p>\n

Prosecutors informed the former deputy director of their decision on Friday, according to McCabes lawyers.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe said at the outset of the criminal investigation, almost two years ago, that if the facts and the law determined the result, no charges would be brought,\u201d lawyers Michael R. Bromwich and David Schertler said in a statement to news outlets. \u201cWe are pleased that Andrew McCabe and his family can go on with their lives without this cloud hanging over them.\u201d<\/p>\n

But the DOJs inspector general, Michael Horowitz, recommended criminal charges against McCabe in 2018 for allegedly misleading investigators when he was asked about providing information in 2016 to a Wall Street Journal reporter about an investigation into the Clinton Foundation.<\/p>\n

Word of the DOJs move to drop its investigation into McCabe came about a day after Barr made public remarks about Trumps comments on Twitter about the criminal case of Roger Stone, a former adviser of Trump. Stone had faced seven to nine years in prison until top officials at the DOJ intervened earlier this week.<\/p>\n

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