FBI reopening 3 high-profile cases, including a leaked Supreme Court decision

The FBI is either reopening investigations or pushing more resources into existing ones in three high-profile cases.

The three cases include

pipe bombs found in Washington in 2021

,

cocaine found in the White House in 2023

while Joe Biden was president and a

leaked Supreme Court decision

on abortion

,

according to ABC News

.

The FBI announced the renewed efforts involving those cases on Monday.

“Shortly after swearing in, the director and I evaluated a number of cases of potential public corruption that, understandably, have garnered public interest,” FBI Deputy Director Dan Bongino posted on X. “We made the decision to either re-open, or push additional resources and investigative attention, to these cases.

“I receive requested briefings on these cases weekly and we are making progress,” he added. “If you have any investigative tips on these matters that may assist us then please contact the FBI.”

The cases drew intense public interest and anger from some Republicans and other conservatives.

Bongino, a former podcaster, raised questions about both the cocaine case and leak case,

according to Axios

.

The cocaine was found at the White House in July 2023, but the Secret Service closed the case days later, saying it couldn’t find a suspect, according to ABC.

Before taking his role at the FBI, Bongino had suggested the drug belonged to a member of the Biden family,

according to NPR

. Biden and his family were not at the White House at the time the cocaine was found.

House Republicans at the time questioned how quickly the investigation was closed, according to ABC.

The leak case occurred when a draft opinion in a major Supreme Court case involving abortion rights was disclosed early. The decision in the Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization case ultimately overturned the national right to an abortion and allowed each state to make its own decisions about the procedure.

The Supreme Court’s investigators looked into the leak of the opinion, but couldn’t determine who the leaker was, ABC said.

The pipe bombing case stems from two explosive devices found outside the Democratic National Committee and Republican National Committee offices in Washington a day before the Jan. 6 attack at the U.S. Capitol, according to ABC.

The FBI has been unable to make gains in finding a suspect in the case, despite offering a $500,000 reward, ABC said.

The FBI and the Justice Department have also launched an investigation

into real estate transactions involving New York Attorney General Letitia James

.

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