The friend to whom former FBI Director James Comey says he provided memos about his private conversations with President Trump has handed over all “relevant materials” to the FBI, according to multiple reports Tuesday.
Last week, during his testimony to the Senate Intelligence Committee, Comey revealed that he had asked his “good friend” who is a professor at Columbia Law School to leak details he wrote down of an alleged conversation he had with Trump. Details of the memo later were published in a New York Times report about Trump asking Comey to lay off an investigation into former national security adviser Mike Flynn.
Daniel Richman confirmed to the Washington Examiner that he was that friend at Columbia and on Tuesday told ABC News that he has turned over all information he has in his possession to federal officials.
“Special counsel has been in contact with the committee to discuss access. In the meantime, I am turning the relevant materials over to the FBI,” he said in a message sent to ABC News.
Comey said during the hearing last Thursday that he no longer had a copy of the memo and that he had already given it to former FBI Director Robert Mueller, who is the special counsel running the federal probe into Russia, the Washington Post reported.
The leaders of the Senate Judiciary Committee, which along with federal investigators and other congressional panels, is conducting a probe into Russian meddling in the 2016 election, penned a letter to Richman last week demanding any relevant documents from Comey he has in his possession.
