Title: Who is James Comey: 7 things about the FBI director | CNN Politics
Headings: Who is James Comey: 7 things to know about the fired FBI director
Who is James Comey: 7 things to know about the fired FBI director
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He delivered an unprecedented “October Surprise” last year
He opposed Bush White House officials in a dramatic standoff
He prosecuted Martha Stewart
He’d investigated the Clintons previously
He was locked up and held at gunpoint by a high-profile serial criminal as a teen
He was overwhelmingly confirmed by the Senate in 2013
He was a registered Republican for many years

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He prosecuted Martha Stewart
When lifestyle guru Martha Stewart was indicted in 2003 on a series of charges connected to a dodgy 2000 stock deal, it was Comey who brought the charges. ”This criminal case is about lying – lying to the FBI, lying to the SEC, lying to investors,” Comey, then a US attorney for the Southern District of New York, said at a press conference. ” Martha Stewart is being prosecuted not for who she is, but because of what she did.” Stewart was convicted on all counts in 2004 and sentenced to five months in prison. She served her time and was released in March 2005. He’d investigated the Clintons previously
In fact, the email server probe marked the third time Comey has investigated Bill or Hillary Clinton. Their first run-in came in the mid-1990s, when Comey joined the Senate Whitewater Committee as a deputy special counsel. There he dug into allegations that the Clintons took part in a fraud connected to a Arkansas real estate venture gone bust.