"MR. LEMONS: Thank you, Your Honor. Your Honor, we have made a request to the issuing district as to those search warrants, for them to be unsealed. My understanding, last speaking with an AUSA in that district, is that motion has not been filed at this time. They are preparing to provide notice to other potentially interested parties, per their practice and the rules they have to abide by in that district."
"So we requested it, and our understanding is at this time that the warrants all remain completely under seal. That is the only reason why the government designated these search warrants as protected material and filed them under seal and understands why the defense filed them under seal. If it was in my power and ability here today, those search warrants would be totally unsealed."
Four Dan Richman-related dockets from 2019–2020 and a contemporaneous National Security Letter docket remain substantially sealed despite judicial actions. Judge Anthony Trenga ordered an NSL-related docket from the same period to be unsealed, but that docket remains largely sealed. Magistrate Judge William Fitzpatrick, at a November 5 hearing on the DOJ's effort to breach Jim Comey's privilege, focused on sealed documents and questioned AUSA Tyler Lemons about the status of underlying warrants. The government stated it requested the issuing district to unseal the warrants, that motions had not yet been filed, and that the warrants remain under seal. Fitzpatrick ordered the government to move by November 10, 2025 to unseal four referenced search warrants and to take steps to unseal related sealed filings.
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