Comey’s Columbia Leaker Accomplice Goes Into Hiding

 Daniel Richman

Columbia University professor, Daniel Richman, went into hiding Thursday after  James Comey revealed during his Senate testimony that the man leaked memos detailing the former FBI chief’s conversations with President Trump to the press, after Comey provided him with the memos for the purpose of leaking them.

“…[I] asked a friend of mine to share the content of the memo with a reporter,” Comey said during his testimony today. ”I didn’t do it myself for a variety of reasons, but I asked him to because I thought it might prompt the appointment of a special counsel, so I asked a close friend of mine to do it.”

According to the New York Post, Richman confirmed by e-mail to several reporters that he  was the “good friend” and law-school prof who Comey slipped the documents to. Richman then, according to the Post, hightailed it out of his tony Brooklyn Heights home and refused to answer any more questions.

JUST IN: Columbia U professor Dan Richman confirms to @washingtonpost he was the friend Comey asked to share info about his mtg w/ Trump.

— Ed O'Keefe (@edatpost) June 8, 2017

Richman is the Paul J. Kellner Professor of Law at Columbia Law School, according to the school's website.

He is a former federal prosecutor who served as chief appellate attorney in the U.S. Attorney's Office for the Southern District of New York, and has served as a consultant to the Department of Justice and the Department of the Treasury on federal criminal matters.

 -RW