ALEXANDRIA, Va. (AP) — James Comey’s son-in-law resigned as a federal prosecutor minutes after the previous FBI director was indicted Thursday.
Troy Edwards give up his job “to uphold my oath to the Constitution and the country,” he wrote in a one-sentence resignation letter addressed to Lindsay Halligan, the newly appointed appearing U.S. Legal professional in Virginia’s Jap District, the workplace that charged Comey.
Edwards was the the deputy chief of the Nationwide Safety Part, a prestigious function in a U.S. lawyer’s workplace that covers the Pentagon and CIA headquarters, dealing with a number of the highest-profile espionage instances.
He was on the group of prosecutors who convicted Oath Keepers founder Stewart Rhodes of orchestrating a violent plot to storm the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, to maintain President Donald Trump within the White Home after he misplaced the 2020 election.
Edwards was watching from the entrance row of the courtroom gallery when his spouse’s father was indicted Thursday night.
The Justice Division fired Comey’s daughter, Maurene Comey, with out clarification in July. She had been a veteran lawyer within the Southern District of New York, lengthy thought of probably the most elite federal prosecution workplace.
She sued the federal government this month to get her job again, saying her firing was for political causes and was unconstitutional.
