The Developer: “The newly unsealed indictment against former FBI Director James Comey shows the Justice Department has charged him with two counts tied to his May 15, 2025 Instagram post showing seashells arranged as “86 47.” The case was filed in the Eastern District of North Carolina and names Comey as “James Brien Comey Jr.” Read the full indictment UNITED STATES OF AMERICA v. JAMES BRIEN COMEY JR. 4:26-CR-16-FL-RN 189KB ∙ PDF file Download. UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE EASTERN DISTRICT OF NORTH CAROLINA EASTERN DIVISION.

Context – NBC NEWS: “…Nicole Holliday, a professor of linguistics at the University of California-Berkeley, said it has been around since at least the 1930s, when it was used to note when an item was sold out at a soda fountain. Another origin story credited the term to a restaurant called Delmonico’s, where a popular steak that was the 86th item on the menu would quickly sell out. Yet another claims it originated at a speakeasy called Chumley’s, which had multiple entrances, including one at 86 Bedford St. When police would raid it during Prohibition, customers were told to “86” it — leave through the Bedford Street side. Chumley’s closed in 2007, and the space later reopened as a steakhouse called The Eighty Six.R eyes said he’d heard it was a military term for something that was out of commission. In a 2019 article in St. Louis Magazine, dining editor George Mahe compiled a list of almost 20 different versions of how the term originated. Holliday said the term was also used in the 1930s and the ’50s to describe bar customers who’d been cut off from drinking more or kicked out of an establishment, and it is still used that way, as well. Merriam-Webster defines the term as slang meaning “to throw out,” “to get rid of” or “to refuse service to.”…Trump offered reporters in the Oval Office another definition Wednesday. “Well, if anybody knows anything about crime, they know 86 — you know what 86 — it’s a mob term for kill him. You know? You ever see the movies? ‘86 him,’ the mobster says to one of his wonderful associates, ‘86 him.’ That means ‘kill him.’ It’s, I think of it as a mob term,” he said…”