A separate judge had ruled that Halligan, who brought cases against former FBI Director James Comey and New York Attorney General Letitia James, was unlawfully appointed.

A separate judge had ruled that Halligan, who brought cases against former FBI Director James Comey and New York Attorney General Letitia James, was unlawfully appointed.

A federal judge Tuesday ordered Trump ally Lindsey Halligan to explain why she continues to call herself the U.S. attorney for the Eastern District of Virginia even though another judge determined in November that she had been unlawfully appointed to the position.

U.S. District Judge David Novak of Richmond issued a three-page order demanding to know why Halligan is still serving in the post. Halligan, who unsuccessfully prosecuted former FBI Direct James Comey and New York Attorney General Letitia James, is also referred to as U.S. attorney by the Justice Department in official documents.

The judge’s order is unusual because he issued it on his own, not at the request of defense attorneys. It came in a case involving a carjacking and attempted bank robbery suspect who was indicted last month.

  • coyootje@lemmy.world
    32·
    2 days ago

    Yeah they do, it’s the one Ghislaine Maxwell is in. The one that’s basically a regular house that you can’t leave.

    • BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today
      3·
      2 days ago

      Maxwell has been complimentary of her prison saying “the staff is very responsive…”

      Staff. Responsive. Fuck. Me.

    • TranscendentalEmpire@lemmy.today
      10·
      2 days ago

      Tbf she’s not actually wealthy. Her father was at one point, but his business empire collapsed into debt. She’s just a heiress with no inheritance who had lots of connections with wealthy people.

        • jaybone@lemmy.zipEnglish
          82·
          2 days ago

          That’s not all that rich. Which is probably why she’s in prison.

          Where I live, a single family home costs well over a million dollars. Two million in a “nice” neighborhood. Take the rest of that and put it in a diversified brokerage account, you can probably make enough each month to live as if you had a regular middle class job but without working. I wouldn’t call that “rich.” That’s basically just early retirement.

          Sure would be nice though.

          • Vardøgor@mander.xyz
            2·
            2 days ago

            dude. if you have SEVEN digits, ~15x the average annual income, to spend on a home and still have enough to never work again, you are rich

          • BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today
            1·
            2 days ago

            If she’s got a penny, she’s got millions squirrelled away somewhere. She was Epstein for years, and he had billions. Surely he siphoned some to her as well. And a guy like Epstein definitely knows how to hide money in Cayman, or Bahamian, or Swiss, etc. banks.

            There’s a whole other branch of the Epstein case that is seldom mentioned: the financial case. There’s an investigation into the money trails, and that’s could lead to more actionable information than all the gossipy stuff we’ve seen so far.