The former FBI director, James Comey, arrives to testify during a US Senate select committee on intelligence hearing on Capitol Hill on 8 June 2017. Photograph: Brendan Smialowski/AFP/Getty ImagesView image in fullscreenThe former FBI director, James Comey, arrives to testify during a US Senate select committee on intelligence hearing on Capitol Hill on 8 June 2017. Photograph: Brendan Smialowski/AFP/Getty ImagesJustice department files new criminal charges against ex-FBI director ComeySubject of charges remains unclear, after earlier case over congressional testimony was dismissed
The justice department filed new criminal charges against James Comey, the former FBI director, on Tuesday, according to a person familiar with the matter.
The subject of the charges was not immediately clear and the justice department did not immediately return a request for comment. CNN first reported a new indictment had been filed.
The justice department previously indicted Comey last year and charged him with lying to Congress. That case was dismissed when a judge in the eastern district of Virginia ruled that the prosecutor overseeing the case had been wrongfully appointed.
