Former FBI director James Comey on Thursday chastised Rudy Giuliani, a recent addition to U.S. President Donald Trump’s legal team, for referring to FBI agents in New York as “stormtroopers” during a television interview. “I know the New York FBI,” Comey, who once served as U.S. attorney for the Southern District of New York, wrote on Twitter on Thursday morning. Giuliani said he feared that Mueller’s team would be more inclined to believe contradictory testimony from Comey on a range of issues. Giuliani called Comey a “disgraceful liar,” adding that “they should put him in the same jail cell” as Martha Stewart, the business executive and television personality. As the U.S. attorney for the Southern District of New York, Comey prosecuted Stewart in 2003 for making false statements to federal investigators, among other charges, related to a stock trading case.

Source: thestar May 03, 2018 19:30 UTC