President Joe Biden’s attorney, Patrick Moore, surrendered nine boxes of documents from his office to the National Archives as part of the investigation into Biden’s classified document scandal, Sens. Ron Johnson, R-Wisc., and Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, were told this week.
The National Archives hadn’t previously disclosed how many documents were seized as part of the investigation. The Archives have not reviewed the contents of the nine boxes despite knowing about them for five months.
Moore had reportedly shipped the boxes of documents from the Penn Biden Center to his office in Boston, Massachusetts before the initial find of the Biden classified documents at the D.C. think tank.
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In response to questions by Johnson and Grassley in a Feb. 24 letter asking how and when the archives learned that records were transported to Boston, Acting Archivist of the United States Debra Steidel Wall responded the agency learned about it on Nov. 3, 2022.
The FBI also recently searched the University of Delaware for classified documents as part of its investigation.
The university was the fourth known entity to be searched by the FBI following inspections of his former office at the Penn Biden Center in Washington, where records with classified markings were initially found in a locked closet by Biden’s personal lawyers in November, and more recently of his Delaware homes in Wilmington and Rehoboth Beach.
A Justice Department special counsel is investigating how classified documents from Biden’s time as vice president and senator came to wind up in his home and former office — and whether it was a criminal act. Biden’s personal lawyers disclosed in January that a small batch of documents with classified markings had been found weeks earlier in his former Washington office, and they have since allowed FBI searches of multiple properties.
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The FBI took six items that contained documents with classified markings during its January search of the Wilmington home, Biden’s personal lawyer has said. Agents did not find classified documents at the Rehoboth Beach property but did take some handwritten notes and other materials relating to Biden’s time as vice president for review.
The Justice Department is separately investigating the retention by former President Donald Trump of documents marked as classified at his Florida estate, Mar-a-Lago. The FBI raided the home last August after months of resistance by Trump and his representatives.
The FBI also searched the Indiana home of former Vice President Mike Pence after his lawyers came forward to say they had found a small number of documents with classified markings. A Pence adviser said one additional document with classified markings was found during that search.
The Horn editorial team and the Associated Press contributed to this article.