Deputy FBI Director Dan Bongino's future is uncertain amid the growing fallout over the Justice Department's decision not to disclose any more records from its investigations into deceased sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, multiple sources familiar with the matter confirmed to ABC News. Sources said that Bongino has recently suggested to allies he may resign following days of growing outrage publicly voiced by President Donald Trump's most vocal supporters over a memo issued earlier in the week that

Jeff Sessions after the Justice Department’s inspector general determined he had misled internal investigators about his involvement in a news media leak.... He sued in 2019, saying his firing was part of an effort by Trump to purge the FBI of officials he perceived as disloyal.... He added that he hopes “ this result encourages the men and women of the FBI to continue to protect the American people by standing up for the truth and doing their jobs without fear of political retaliation.”....

But it never works out that way. Trump famously fired then-FBI Director James Comey months after taking office for his first term in 2017.... Trump’s are about policy differences, including over the role of the Justice Department overall. The stated reasons for Comey’s firing, laid out in a memo prepared for Trump’s Justice Department, were contradictory.... Sessions did so because he had failed during Senate confirmation hearings to disclose preelection contacts he had with Russia’s ambassado

President-elect Donald Trump announced Saturday that he plans on firing FBI director Christopher Wray and replacing him with longtime ally Kash Patel. The appointment must be approved by the Senate.... Go Nakamura/ Reuters, Files Patel has been a staunch supporter of Trump for years and served in his first administration under a number of roles.... Trump can not make personnel changes to the FBI until he is sworn in. Wray, the current agency director, was appointed in 2017 after Trump fired Di

The sources cautioned that Bongino had not made up his mind, and it was possible he would stay in his position.... His death was ruled a suicide. The death, though, was heavily scrutinized, and during his 2024 campaign, Trump said that he would consider releasing additional government files on the case.... Many of the president’s supporters hoped that release would implicate other high-profile figures, or undercut the notion that Epstein killed himself....

The Federal Bureau of Investigation is probing the Democratic New York attorney general’s real estate transactions, Director Kash Patel confirmed in an interview with Fox News on Sunday. The investigation is focused on whether the state Attorney General, Letitia James, committed fraud on a mortgage application, a source familiar with the case told CNN.... In 2022, the attorney general sued Trump, his adult sons and his real estate business, accusing them of fraud.... The lawsuit has resulted i

2 “ over my dead body.” The senators who will need to confirm Patel have been largely split along party lines on the announcement. Democratic Sen.... He wrote that he grew up apolitical but became more right-wing during his time in college at the University of Richmond.... He spent stints in the public defender’s office in Miami-Dade County and in the Southern District of Florida. Patel went on to work as a federal prosecutor in the National Security Division of the DOJ, according to his book.

He should resign or be fired.He was supposed to be the solution for the beleaguered bureau.... During his nearly three-year tenure at the helm of the FBI, Wray has consistently defied Congress by refusing to produce documents exposing the dishonest acts of his predecessor, James Comey, and his cadre of corrupt confederates.... There was no legitimate reason for agents to talk with Flynn....

However, there has been voter fraud at the local level" from time to time," Wray told the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee during a hearing on threats to the homeland, adding that the FBI takes seriously the responsibility to investigate such fraud.... " Certainly to change a federal election outcome by mounting that kind of fraud at scale would be a major challenge for an adversary, but people should make no mistake, we're vigilant as to the threat and watching it ca

Mike Rogers, former acting commissioner of US Customs and Border Protection Mark Morgan and Jeff Jensen, a former St.... Trump nominated Wray in 2017 after firing James Comey, but he began to sour on him before he left office in 2021.... “ Those decisions will be announced when they are made.” A spokesperson for Patel declined to comment....