The James Comey memos that leaked to the media and were a catalyst for the appointment of Special Counsel Robert Mueller were more widely shared than previously known, three sources familiar with the matter tell Fox News. In the event he did not receive any Comey memos, Fitzgerald was invited to provide an on the record statement to Fox News. During his June 2017 Senate testimony, after President Trump fired him, Comey did not describe Richman as an FBI employee, and seemed to give no public indication the memos were shared more broadly. But I asked him to, because I thought that might prompt the appointment of a special counsel," Comey told Sen. Susan Collins, R-Maine, who asked who it was. Comey wrote that on the day Trump fired him, “All I knew was what was reported in the media.

Source: Fox News April 26, 2018 01:03 UTC