FBI Deputy Director Bongino Says Bureau Looking at Several Cases Involving ‘Potential Public Corruption’

FBI Deputy Director Dan Bongino said on Monday that the bureau is looking at launching investigations into cases of potential public corruption. “Shortly after swearing in, [FBI Director Kash Patel] and I evaluated a number of cases of potential public corruption that, understandably, have garnered public interest,” Dan Bongino wrote in a post on social media platform X on Monday morning. Bongino, a former Secret Service agent and radio host, added that they “made the decision to either re-open, or push additional resources and investigative attention, to these cases.” One case that they are looking to target is the FBI investigation into the alleged pipe bombs left near the Democratic and Republican national committee buildings in Washington a day before the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol breach, he said....