Columbia law professor who was asked by pal James Comey to leak memo about Donald Trump goes into hiding
Comey testified on Wednesday that he’d asked a friend to leak his Trump memo
That friend was laster confirmed to be Columbia professor Daniel Richman
Richman has vanished from his Brooklyn home and is seemingly avoiding press
The pair worked together when Richman was a federal prosecutor in Manhattan
They also worked at Columbia together in 2013, and are close friends
By JAMES WILKINSON
DAILYMAIL.COM
8 June 2017
Columbia professor Daniel Richman appears to have gone into hiding after it emerged that he had leaked James Comey’s memo on his meeting with Donald Trump.
Comey testified on Thursday that he had asked a friend at Columbia to release the memo, in which he wrote that Trump had asked him to squash the investigation into Mike Flynn’s Russian ties.
Richman, the Paul J Kellner Professor of Law at Columbia Law School, confirmed after the hearing that he was the friend in question – and then vanished, the New York Post reported.
When asked, Comey said the man he asked to leak the memo to the New York Times in May was ‘a good friend of mine who’s a professor at Columbia Law School.’
Richman confirmed to Mic that he was the professor in question, but then fled his home on Henry Street in Brooklyn’s Richmond Heights.
Neighbors refused to answer questions when the New York Post arrived, and a doorman eventually barred their reporter.
Richman is described on the Columbia website as ‘a former federal prosecutor who served as chief appellate attorney in the US Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of New York.’
It also says that he served as a consultant to the Department of Justice and the Department of the Treasury on federal criminal matters.
Perhaps more pertinently, it says ‘He is currently an adviser to FBI Director James B Comey.’
He and Comey worked together when Richman was a federal prosecutor in Manhattan; they also worked together at Columbia in 2013.
Last month the New Yorker called Richman Comey’s ‘close friend’ and ‘unofficial media surrogate’.
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