.@COMEY FACES NEW CRIMINAL CHARGES - Accused of unlawfully transmitting 'national defense information' and 'conspiring' to share it with a reporter while @FBI Director - Two-count criminal information filed OCT 5 - 18 USC 793 (d) "...willfully communicates, delivers, transmits or causes to be communicated, delivered, or transmitted...to any person not entitled to receive it, or willfully retains the same" (g) '...If two or more persons conspire to violate any of the foregoing provisions of this section..." KEY LANGUAGE: "..the defendant (Comey) through one or more co-conspirators directed INDIVIDUAL 1 to disclose national defense information to a reporter for a national news publication.” CONTEXT: While the new court records do NOT identify individual 1, in August there was a subpoena for Columbia Law Professor Daniel Richman as part of investigation into @Comey's alleged leaking to the media. It is not clear whether the Richman subpoena, first reported @FoxNews, was related to these new allegations. NOTE: According to law enforcement records previously declassified @FBIDirectorKash Comey had Richman hired at the FBI in 2015 as a “Special Government Employee” and “liaison to the media" with a high level security clearance. Richman acted as a de facto PR media rep for Comey. His responsibilities included protecting the FBI and Comey’s public image. Reaching out to Richman for comment and will update If I hear back from him.