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Authored by Jack Phillips via The Epoch Times,

FBI Deputy Director Dan Bongino said on May 26 that the bureau is looking at launching investigations into cases of potential public corruption.

Bongino, a former Secret Service agent and radio host, noted 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.

The FBI said in 2024 that a $500,000 reward is still in effect for information leading to the arrest of the pipe bomb suspect. Earlier in 2025, David Sundberg, former assistant director in charge of the FBI Washington Field Office, told CNN that officials are seeking new leads.

Other cases that warrant more resources include one involving the discovery of cocaine in the White House in July 2023 and the leak of the Supreme Court’s decision that overturned Roe v. Wade in June 2022, Bongino said.

Also in his X post, Bongino said he and Patel have conducted one media interview together, which was with Fox News in May.

In the Fox News interview, Patel and Bongino were asked about the death of convicted sex trafficker and financier Jeffrey Epstein in August 2019. They said his cause of death was suicide, which medical examiners determined after his body was found hanged in a New York City jail.

Bongino said he agreed with Patel’s assessment that Epstein’s death was by suicide.

Since Epstein’s body was found, there has been widespread speculation that he did not kill himself. His brother, Mark Epstein, told news outlets in 2019 that he believes that his brother did not die by suicide, and he reiterated those claims during an interview with Megyn Kelly in 2024.

Meanwhile, Patel confirmed on May 18 that the FBI is investigating New York Attorney General Letitia James over her real estate transactions.