Daniel Richman

Daniel C. Richman is an American attorney. He is the Paul J. Kellner Professor of Law at Columbia Law School.[1]

Daniel Richman
Born
Daniel Charles Richman
Alma materHarvard University
Yale Law School
OccupationLaw professor
EmployerColumbia Law School

Education

Richman received a bachelor's degree from Harvard University in 1980 and a J.D. from Yale Law School in 1984.[1][2]

Career

Richman served as a federal prosecutor in the U.S. Attorney's Office for the Southern District of New York. He was the Brendan Moore Professor in Advocacy at Fordham Law School before taking his current position at Columbia.[1] He was a special government employee for the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI).[3]

Following the June 8, 2017 public hearing at the United States Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, Richman confirmed to reporters that he was the person former FBI Director James Comey had instructed to reveal the contents of Comey's memos detailing conversation with President Donald Trump.[4][5] Richman and Comey are longtime friends, and Richman's faculty page describes him as an advisor to Comey.[1][5]

References
  1. "Daniel C. Richman". Columbia Law School. Retrieved 8 June 2017.
  2. Beggin, Riley (2017-06-13). "Who is Comey's friend and leaker Daniel Richman?". ABC News. Retrieved 2017-07-05.
  3. Herridge, Catherine; Browne, Pamela K.; Upson, Cyd (April 24, 2018). "Comey's memo leak contact had 'special government employee' status at FBI". Fox News.
  4. Ortiz, Eric; Linzer, Dafna (2017-06-08). "Who is the Daniel Richman, the 'good friend' who leaked Comey's private memo?". NBC News. Retrieved 2017-06-08.
  5. Ward, Alex (2017-06-08). "Meet Daniel Richman, the Columbia professor who helped Comey leak his memos". Vox. Retrieved 2017-06-08.


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