FBI, Dan Bongino and Andrew Bailey
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Missouri's attorney general is resigning to take a leadership position with the FBI. Republican Attorney General Andrew Bailey says Monday that he is resigning effective Sept. 8 and will serve as co-deputy director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation.
The city will soon receive one of the largest per capita infusions of full-time agents and intel personnel in the nation.
The Justice Department said Monday that Missouri Attorney General Andrew Bailey, an ardent backer of President Donald Trump, had been appointed FBI co-deputy director. Bailey said he would resign as Missouri's top prosecutor to join conservative podcaster Dan Bongino in the bureau's No.