{"id":74263,"date":"2026-05-31T18:55:04","date_gmt":"2026-05-31T23:55:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/31\/lead-prosecutor-withdraws-from-criminal-case-against-james-comey\/"},"modified":"2026-05-31T18:55:04","modified_gmt":"2026-05-31T23:55:04","slug":"lead-prosecutor-withdraws-from-criminal-case-against-james-comey","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/31\/lead-prosecutor-withdraws-from-criminal-case-against-james-comey\/","title":{"rendered":"Lead prosecutor withdraws from criminal case against James Comey"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>DoJ filing did not say why Timothy Severo is replacing Matthew Petracca in case over ex-FBI director\u2019s \u201886 47\u2019 post<\/p>\n<p>The lead prosecutor in former <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/fbi\">FBI<\/a> director <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/james-comey\">James Comey<\/a>\u2019s case over a social media post has withdrawn from the case, according to a new <a href=\"https:\/\/storage.courtlistener.com\/recap\/gov.uscourts.nced.227449\/gov.uscourts.nced.227449.16.0.pdf\">court filing<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The justice department filed notice with the court on Friday evening that Matthew Petracca, a prosecutor from the US attorney\u2019s office for the eastern district of North Carolina, had been replaced by assistant US attorney Timothy Severo.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2026\/may\/31\/prosecutor-leaves-james-comey-case-doj\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>DoJ filing did not say why Timothy Severo is replacing Matthew Petracca in case over ex-FBI director\u2019s \u201886 47\u2019 post The lead prosecutor in former FBI director James Comey\u2019s case over a social media post has withdrawn from the case, according to a new court filing. The justice department filed notice with the court on &#8230; <a title=\"Lead prosecutor withdraws from criminal case against James Comey\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/31\/lead-prosecutor-withdraws-from-criminal-case-against-james-comey\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Lead prosecutor withdraws from criminal case against James Comey\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-74263","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74263","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=74263"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74263\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=74263"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=74263"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=74263"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}