Disgraced former FBI Director James Comey landed a teaching position at Columbia Law School next year, according to the university.
The school announced on Tuesday that Comey will be a senior research scholar and part of the Reuben Mark Initiative for Organizational Character and Leadership beginning in January. He will also teach a seminar called “Lawyers and Leaders.”
He will also become one of two “Leaders-in-Residence,” a program that invites executives from government agencies, corporations and top law firms to teach classes at Columbia and share their professional experience with students.
“Comey’s experience represents a broadening of the Mark Initiative’s focus to include leadership of major public institutions, complementing existing offerings relating to corporations and law firms,” the school said in a statement.
Comey was ousted by President Donald Trump in 2017 after it became clear he was working to undermine the Trump administration.
Declassified documents have indicated that Comey may have personally overseen the deceptive perjury trap against former national security adviser Gen. Michael Flynn.
During Senate testimony earlier this year, his ex-boss, former Deputy Attorney General Sally Yates, accused Comey of going “rogue” in the operations.
The declassified documents also confirmed that Comey knew the intel from the Steele Dossier, which largely formed the basis the debunked Russia-collusion hoax, was highly questionable at best, and outright dishonest at worst.
The disgraced FBI director is also rumored to be facing potential criminal charges for his role in the conspiracy, currently being investigated by US Attorney John Durham.
The investigation is expected to continue even if Trump leaves office. Attorney General William Barr made sure of that this week when he appointed Durham as a special counsel so he can enjoy the same autonomy previously held by Robert Mueller.
Barr’s authorization gives Durham broad powers to investigate “whether any federal official, employee, or any other person or entity violated the law in connection with the intelligence, counter-intelligence, or law-enforcement activities directed at the 2016 presidential campaigns,” the Department of Justice said in a statement.
