Former FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe’s lawyer says his client is still under investigation by federal prosecutors.
“We’ve had dealings with the U.S. attorney’s office” in Washington, McCabe’s lawyer Michael Bromwich said, according to the Associated Press on Thursday. “We are in continuing communication with them.”
McCabe, who is now a week into a media tour for his new book, was fired from the FBI on March 16, 2018. That was less than two days before he planned to retire on his 50th birthday and collect a full pension, after the Justice Department’s Office of the Inspector General determined that he misled investigators about the role he had in leaking information to the Wall Street Journal in October 2016 about the investigation into the Clinton Foundation.
In April, it was revealed that the Justice Department IG had referred its findings to the U.S. attorney’s office in Washington for possible criminal charges.
McCabe has indicated that he plans to sue the government to get his pension back.
McCabe has made a number of revelations over the past several days, including providing the first on-the-record corroboration of months-old reports that Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein told Justice Department officials about wearing a “wire” to record conversations with Trump and that he had discussed invoking the 25th Amendment against the president to remove him from office in the days after FBI Director James Comey was fired in the spring of 2017.
The Justice Department claims his version of events was “inaccurate and factually incorrect” and that Rosenstein never authorized the use of a wire to secretly record Trump.
Meanwhile, Trump has accused McCabe and Rosenstein of planning to carry out an “illegal and treasonous” plan against him.
