From Beauty Queen To Comey Prosecutor: Just Who is Lindsey Halligan?

Jennifer Bowers Bahney Sep 26th, 2025, 12:54 pm

Donald Trump’s hand-picked prosecutor, who just indicted former FBI Director Jim Comey — 36-year-old Lindsey Halligan — is an enigma to the legal community, which has never seen her successfully prosecute a federal criminal case.

That’s because she never prosecuted a federal criminal case and will essentially be learning on the job as she goes after Trump’s top political enemy for allegedly perjuring himself before Congress in 2020.

Halligan replaces Erik Siebert as the U.S. attorney for the Eastern District of Virginia after Siebert resigned — or was fired, to hear Trump tell it — for refusing to prosecute another Trump enemy, New York Attorney General Letiti

See Full Page