A senior FBI official accepted tickets to a baseball game from a CNN reporter and lied about it repeatedly during interviews with the Justice Department’s (DOJ) Office of Inspector General (OIG), according to a department report.
Michael Kortan, who was then the assistant director of public affairs, had accepted tickets to Washington Nationals games on at least two occasions from a CNN reporter, once in May 2016 and another game in Sept. 2016, according to the DOJ report of investigation obtained by the Daily Caller. It also found that Kortan showed “lack of candor” during multiple interviews under oath with investigators.
