Deputy FBI Director Dan Bongino said Monday that his agency will revive or devote more resources into several investigations of unsolved cases from the Biden administration that have “garnered public interest” and have long ignited claims of corruption by allies and supporters of President Donald Trump.
Bongino identified three cases that he said pointed to “potential public corruption,” including an investigation into a pair of pipe bombs that were found near the Democratic Party and the Republican Party headquarters Jan. 6, 2021, and the discovery of a bag of cocaine at the White House in 2023.
A third case Bongino said would be further reviewed was the 2022 leak of the unpublished Supreme Court decision ending federal protections for abortion rights. That probe was closed after a roughly eight-month investigation which included forensic analysis but was unable to identify a person responsible.
“We made the decision to either re-open, or push additional resources and investigative attention, to these cases,” Bongino wrote in a post on X.
“I receive requested briefings on these cases weekly and we are making progress,” he added.
The fresh attention to the cases comes as the bureau faces pressure to investigate claims that Trump’s allies, including Bongino himself, have promoted: that the Biden administration and deep state actors weaponized the Justice Department.
Before he was sworn in earlier this year, Bongino accused the FBI of lying about not knowing the identity of the pipe bomber, saying, the agency “just doesn’t want to tell us because it was an inside job.”
The FBI in January released video linked to the pipe bombs, that it said depicted a masked suspect planting bombs outside the Republican and Democratic headquarters in Washington a day before the Capitol riot.
Bongino has also questioned the discovery of the bag of cocaine that was uncovered in the White House in July 2023, suggesting shortly after the incident that the cocaine belonged to a Biden family member. He wrote then on X, “there’s absolutely ZERO chance anyone other than a family member brought that cocaine inside the White House complex.”
The Secret Service briefly investigated the incident and ended its probe after officials said that it had not detected usable DNA or fingerprints and that security footage had not produced leads beyond a too-expansive list of 500 staffers and visitors.
