James Comey, the former FBI Director who served from 2013 to 2017, has long been a controversial figure in American politics—a tall, stoic man with a lawman’s demeanor who positioned himself as a guardian of justice but repeatedly found himself at the center of scandals that smelled of political favoritism and cover-ups.

On September 25, 2025, a federal grand jury in the Eastern District of Virginia indicted Comey on two felony counts: making false statements (lying under oath) and obstruction of justice.

These charges stem from his congressional testimony in September 2020, where he denied involvement in leaking FBI information and obstructed inquiries into the origins of the Russia hoax probe.

The indictment, unsealed the following day (September 26, 2025), marks a stunning fall for Comey, who once led the nation’s premier law enforcement agency but now faces up to 10 years in prison if convicted.

This development vindicates early critics like the 2017 Havachat article “Chronic Obstruction Alert: James Comey & Barack Obama, Bones in the Throat of American Justice,” which accused Comey and Obama of obstructing justice to protect Hillary Clinton during the email server scandal.