Acting Attorney General Blanche Announces the Indictment of Former FBI Director James Comey, Apr. 29, 2026
April 29, 2026 · The Justice Department · 0:14:09
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What happened
Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche announced on April 29, 2026, that a federal grand jury in the Eastern District of North Carolina had returned an indictment charging former FBI Director James Comey with making threats to harm President Donald J. Trump, according to the Justice Department’s description of the announcement. The department published two uploads of the same announcement that day; the captioned upload is the embed of record here, and the second upload is recorded in this site’s index as an alternate source, not a separate page. An indictment is a charge, not a finding; the charge is recorded here as the department announced it.
Why it matters
An indictment of a former FBI Director announced personally by the Acting Attorney General is among the most contested enforcement actions of the term — it is recorded here on the department’s own published account, on the Justice & Crime hub.
Scoreboard watch
Scoreboard candidate: the indictment announcement as stated by the Acting Attorney General is a dated enforcement action. Flagged for the weekly editor; no entry is published from this page.
Sources: U.S. Department of Justice, “Acting AG Blanche Announces Federal Grand Jury Indicts Former FBI Director for Threats to Harm POTUS,” April 29, 2026 (official upload, embedded above). This page is grounded in the department’s published description of the upload and the upload’s metadata.
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