Attorney General Andrew Bailey will resign to serve as a co-deputy director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation.

Bailey, a 44-year-old Army veteran from Rhineland, had never held an elected office before former Gov. Mike Parson chose him in late 2022.

Missouri Attorney General Andrew Bailey announced on Monday that he will be resigning next month to take a new job in Washington D.C.

Former FBI acting director Brian Driscoll and two other officials forced out of bureau, with sources calling the departures retribution against January 6 investigators.

J. Edgar Hoover, director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, is seen in his Washington office in 1966, before construction began on the building named after him.

Federal prosecutors say they have a "staggering amount of evidence" to convict dozens of members of a Detroit-area motorcycle gang, who are accused of a violent criminal enterprise. Jul 21, 2012

Comey served as the director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation from 2013 until his termination in May 2017.