Former FBI Director James Comey has been charged for the third time with federal crimes according to a court filing made public Monday.

Comey is charged in the new case with knowingly communicating information related to national defense to a person not entitled to receive it.

He also is charged with conspiring with others to violate the law against sharing such information.

The criminal complaint in U.S. District Court in Washington, D.C. says Comey, "through one or more co-conspirators," directed an unnamed individual to disclose national defense information to a reporter for a national news publication."

The complaint came to light hours after a federal judge in New York ruled that the Department of Justice had unlawfully fired Comey's daughter, Maurene Comey, last year as an assistant U.S. attorney for the Southern District of New York.

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