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Comey's legal team says the government illegally surveilled him and used information from notorious gangster Sammy 'The Bull' Gravano to build its case, calling the prosecution absurd.
Comey's legal team filed a motion claiming the government illegally surveilled him and built its case using information from Sammy 'The Bull' Gravano, the mobster-turned-informant. They're calling the entire prosecution absurd based on these allegations. This is an unusually aggressive defense strategy — not fighting the charges themselves, but attacking the government's methods and sources as fundamentally compromised.
The Gravano angle is the striking part. It suggests Comey's prosecution relied on intelligence from a figure with his own credibility problems, raising real questions about evidence quality. If a judge agrees the surveillance was illegal or the sources too tainted, the whole case collapses before trial. Comey has the resources to fight this aggressively, which gives him room to challenge prosecution methods that a typical defendant couldn't afford to question. The case now hinges on whether a judge finds the government's approach improper enough to dismiss.
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