Federal prosecutors defended a criminal case against former F.B.I. director James Comey at a hearing in federal court and suggested they may seek additional charges, according to a report by Devlin Barrett in The New York Times. The Times published its report on October 30, 2026.
The Times described the case as an unusual one that came at the 11th hour. It accuses Comey of leaking classified information about a decade ago, according to the Times summary of the hearing.
The summary says prosecutors defended the case in court but does not describe the arguments they made, how the judge responded, or which judge presided. It also does not say what the additional charges might be or when, or whether, they would be filed. The Times presented the prosecutors' remarks as a suggestion that more charges may be sought, not as an announcement that they had been filed.
The summary does not report any response from Comey or his representatives to the hearing or to the suggestion of additional charges. Comey is identified in the Times report as a former director of the F.B.I., and the summary does not describe his current legal position beyond the charges already brought.
No other outlet among the reports reviewed for this article covered the hearing. The account here therefore rests entirely on The New York Times, and any further developments in the case would need to be confirmed against later reporting.
Sources: The New York Times: Prosecutors Suggest They May Seek Additional Comey Charges.