A new court filing by James Comey's attorneys definitively answers a lingering question about the criminal charges against the former FBI director: Who is "Person 3"?

The Department of Justice last month charged Comey with lying during a 2020 Senate hearing. The two-page indictment accuses the former FBI director of falsely telling lawmakers that he never gave anybody at the FBI permission to serve as an anonymous source in news reports about the bureau's investigation into Hillary Clinton. But it doesn't name the FBI staffer whom Comey allegedly authorized to leak, referring to them only as "Person 3."

In a motion filed Monday to dismiss the charges , Comey's lawyers wrote that last week, the government "confirmed to the defense that … Person 3 refers to Daniel Richman."

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