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. 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 that
James Comey had instructed to reveal the contents of Comey's memos detailing conversation with President
Donald Trump. Richman and Comey are longtime friends, and Richman's faculty page describes him as an advisor to Comey. ==References==