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Justice Department prosecutors moved to question whether James Comey’s lead lawyer, Patrick Fitzgerald, can continue on the case, citing a potential conflict tied to alleged 2017 leaks of classified material. Comey’s team called the claim “provably false” and an “effort to defame.” A filing says “quarantined” evidence includes communications between the two. Fitzgerald pointed to a DOJ inspector general report finding no evidence Comey or his attorneys released classified information, and noted Comey’s seven Trump memos were unclassified when shared. CNN analyst Elie Honig warned a lawyer-witness overlap is “a dicey situation.” Comey was fired May 9, 2017.

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