The investigation stems from the discovery of documents labeled confidential at the official’s Indiana home during the Trump Administration.
By Jill Colvin and Eric Tucker
Washington, February 10 (AP) .- The fbi is registering the home of the former vice president Mike Pence in Indiana as part of one investigation of confidential documentsaccording to a person familiar with the raid.
The source spoke to the Associated Press on condition of anonymity because she was not authorized to speak about the police operation.
The search stems from the discovery last month by lawyers of documents marked confidential.
The FBI had already seized what Pence’s lawyer described to the National Archives agency as a “small number of documents” that had been “packed in boxes and inadvertently transported” to Pence’s Indiana home at the end of the Trump administration.
The Justice Department and a spokesperson for Pence did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
In late January, the AP reported that classified-labeled documents were found at the home of former Vice President Mike Pence in Indiana, his attorney told the National Archives in a letter, in the latest in a series of finds of classified information at residences. private.
These are “apparently a small number of documents labeled confidential placed in boxes and inadvertently transported to the former vice president’s personal address at the end of the previous administration,” Pence’s attorney, Greg Jacob, said in a letter to which he had access Associated Press.
Jacob said that Pence “hired independent legal counsel with experience in handling confidential documents to review documents found at his personal address when it became public that documents labeled confidential were found at President Joe Biden’s Wilmington residence.”