McCabe was dismissed two days before his 50th birthday, when he planned to retire and would have been eligible to collect his pension.
The Trump DOJ had justified McCabe’s firing by citing an internal probe which found he had authorized the leaking of information to the Wall Street Journal and lied to investigators about it . The settlement announced Thursday vacates that decision and expunges from McCabe’s personnel folder any references to having been fired.
When McCabe was fired, Trump cheered the move as a “great day for Democracy.”
McCabe was a favorite whipping boy of Trump following the then-president’s dismissal of FBI Director James Comey in May 2017. McCabe became acting director of the bureau following Comey’s firing, a position he held until August when current Director Christopher Wray took over.
It does not, however, undo DOJ Inspector General Michael Horowitz’s finding that McCabe had not been candid with Horowitz’s investigators. The Justice Department also did not admit any wrongdoing as part of the settlement.
The Justice Department has agreed to restore former FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe’s full pension as part of its settlement of McCabe’s lawsuit stemming from his firing from the bureau more than three-and-a-half years ago, his lawyer announced Thursday.
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