Ethics
Lindsey Halligan being investigated by the Florida Bar
Lindsey Halligan, the previous interim U.S. Lawyer for the Japanese District of Virginia, is a member of the Florida Bar, which has confirmed it’s investigating her.(Photograph by Jacquelyn Martin/The Related Press)
Replace: The Florida Bar reversed its assertion that it was investigating Halligan. See story.
Lindsey Halligan, the previous interim U.S. Lawyer for the Japanese District of Virginia pressured to go away in January, is beneath investigation by the Florida Bar, in keeping with a letter the affiliation despatched final month.
Halligan, the previous interim U.S. Lawyer for the Japanese District of Virginia pressured to go away in January, is beneath investigation by the Florida Bar, in keeping with a letter the affiliation despatched final month. was appointed interim United States Lawyer for the district on September 22, 2025, however her 4 month tenure was marked with controversy and obvious missteps.
With no prior expertise prosecuting instances or practising legal regulation, Halligan pursued indictments towards former FBI Director James Comey and New York Lawyer Normal Letitia James. Each instances had been in the end dismissed when a federal decide discovered her appointment to the submit to be illegal.
The Florida Bar’s letter responded to complaints relating to Halligan’s conduct in these investigations that had been filed by the nonprofit group Marketing campaign for Accountability. The New York Times and CBS additionally reported on the Florida Bar’s investigation into Halligan.
“We have already got an investigation pending,” the bar affiliation stated in its letter to the Marketing campaign for Accountability.
The U.S. Division of Justice posted a proposed regulation within the Federal Register on Wednesday that pitches a brand new system for intervening in state bar associations’ disciplinary proceedings towards present and former DOJ legal professionals—a transfer criticized throughout the authorized neighborhood. The rule, if finalized, would permit the Lawyer Normal to successfully halt state bar disciplinary proceedings.
Final November, a Justice of the Peace decide, William E. Fitzpatrick, stated that it appeared Halligan had made “basic misstatements of the regulation that would compromise the integrity of the grand jury course of” in the course of the case towards Comey. Even after her appointment was discovered to be illegal, Halligan continued in that position for a number of months.
The Justice Division stated it had no remark. Halligan didn’t instantly reply to an electronic mail despatched to the deal with she’s listed on the Florida Bar web site.
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