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Whistleblower News From The Inside -- June 9, 2017

Posted  June 9, 2017

By the C|C Whistleblower Lawyer Team

Comey Confirms He is a Whistleblower — James Comey likely became the first FBI director ever to admit to being a public whistleblower. At a key moment in the over two hours of testimony, Comey volunteered that through a friend at Columbia Law School, he decided to leak the contents of his contacts with President Trump to the press (after the President lied about the circumstances surrounding Comey’s firing). CNN

Is Reality Winner A Leaker, A Whistleblower Or Something Else? — What should we call Reality Winner, the 25-year-old low-level employee for a government contractor who allegedly mailed secret intelligence files to a news organization? To federal prosecutors, she’s a criminal leaker, while others, like WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, have lionized her as a whistleblower in need of support.  What’s the difference? The answer isn’t cut and dry, yet it carries huge legal consequence. HuffPo

GOP Candidate For Florida Attorney General Once Sued Trump In Federal Fraud Case — Ashley Moody once accused Donald Trump of fraud in a federal lawsuit. But now that he’s president and she’s a top Republican candidate for Florida attorney general, Moody said she backs Trump and his agenda. A former judge, Moody said a confidential settlement agreement prevents her from talking about the 54-plaintiff lawsuit that initially involved her father, U.S. District Judge James Moody, in 2009. It claimed Trump and the Trump Organization made a “series of fraudulent and negligent misrepresentations” concerning their involvement in the Trump Tower Tampa condominium project, a now-scuttled $300 million 190-unit development that was supposed to loom 52 stories above the Hillsborough River. Politico