McCabe's team asks Justice if grand jury rejected charges

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Matt Zapotosky, Spencer Hsu
1 hr ago

The legal team for Andrew McCabe has asked federal prosecutors in the District whether a grand jury had rejected their bid to indict the FBI’s former acting director on charges of lying to investigators, pointing to media inquiries and news accounts detailing unusual events in the case.

In emails Thursday to U.S. Attorney Jessie Liu and other prosecutors in her office, McCabe lawyer Michael Bromwich said his team had received media inquiries about grand jurors declining to bring the case, and pointed to published reports describing how even after the Justice Department approved prosecutors’ seeking charges, no indictment was returned.

Bromwich noted that he had “no independent knowledge of whether the reporting is accurate” but suggested that if it was, prosecutors should abandon their effort. He wrote that — on the basis of a discussion Thursday with federal prosecutors — it “is clear that no indictment has been returned” ...

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/andrew-mccabes-legal-team-asks-justice-dept-if-grand-jury-rejected-charges-in-his-case/ar-AAHfOX9

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1. McCabe's lawyers ask Justice if grand jury declined to charge

BY CLARE HYMES
SEPTEMBER 13, 2019 / 3:26 PM / CBS NEWS

... "We have no independent knowledge of whether the reporting is accurate but for present purposes we assume that the grand jury may have voted a no true bill," McCabe's legal team wrote, citing media reports from the Washington Post and the New York Times as indications that their client may not be facing federal criminal charges after all. A "no true bill" refers to a conclusion by a grand jury that there isn't sufficient probable cause to charge a defendant.

On Thursday a person familiar with the case told CBS News that McCabe had appealed criminal charges recommended by the U.S. attorney for the District, Jessie Liu, to Deputy Attorney General Jeffrey Rosen. The department ultimately denied the request ...

"We believe that given the length of this investigation, and the resources devoted to it, this is not a case where authorizing resubmission of the case to a grand jury is consistent with this standard," Bromwich wrote. "If the grand jury voted not to approve charges, it did not find probable cause. Therefore, it is simply not reasonable to believe that a trial jury would find Mr. McCabe guilty of any charges employing a far more rigorous and exacting standard — beyond a reasonable doubt."

McCabe was fired in March 2018 after a Justice Department inspector general report found McCabe had displayed a "lack of candor" after repeatedly misstated his involvement in a news media disclosure regarding an FBI investigation into the Clinton Foundation. McCabe is currently suing the Justice Department and the FBI over the circumstances of his firing ...

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/andrew-mccabes-lawyers-ask-justice-dept-if-grand-jury-declined-to-charge-him/

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2. Federal prosecutors reportedly recommend charges for McCabe

September 12, 2019

... McCabe was fired in 2018 after the Justice Department's inspector general concluded he improperly authorized the disclosure of information about an investigation into the Clinton Foundation to the media and then "lacked candor" under oath when investigators questioned him about it. He has said he never intentionally mislead investigators, alleges his firing was politically motivated, and is currently suing the Department of Justice.

Now, USA Today and Politico's Natasha Bertrand report federal prosecutors have recommended bringing criminal charges against McCabe ...

https://theweek.com/speedreads/864533/federal-prosecutors-reportedly-recommend-charges-andrew-mccabe