Andrew Weissmann
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The second time I went to the grand jury, someone came with me who was experienced and
Lindsay Halligan had never been a criminal prosecutor.
She had never been a criminal lawyer.
She was a civil insurance lawyer.
How is it that she went to the grand jury alone?
Now, I understand people might say, but wait a second, Andrew, you just said all of the criminal experienced AUSAs in the Eastern District of Virginia didn't want to work on the case.
Well, you know what?
The Eastern District of Virginia is right near Washington, D.C., where there are thousands of
Of lawyers working for the Department of Justice.
How did Todd Blanch, who interviewed Ghislaine Maxwell for two days, the deputy attorney general, you know what he could do?
He could have gone to the grand jury with Lindsay Halligan.
Instead, Lindsay Halligan, with no criminal experience, goes to the grand jury.
Alone.
Alone.
Nobody is there with her.
So, I'm sorry, how do you expect there not to be problems?
A beginning assistant United States attorney, a beginning federal prosecutor does not go to the grand jury alone.
Yeah, look, the Letitia James case and the James Comey case, as we're doing this, are dismissed.
Why?
Because they couldn't even get a proper, according to the judge, a proper interim U.S.