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Justice Department is in talks with Pence's legal team about
scheduling the search of his Indiana home, the Wall Street
Journal reported. CNN reported Pence's Washington office was
also expected to be searched.
Lawyers for Pence did not immediately provide comment on the
report. The FBI declined to comment, and the Department of
Justice did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
Pence's attorney, Greg Jacob, disclosed in January that
documents marked as classified had been found at his Indiana
home, and that they had been turned over to the FBI. Jacob
described them as a "small number of documents that could
potentially contain sensitive or classified information".
Citing a person close to Pence, the Wall Street Journal reported
that his legal team considered the earlier search of his home
exhaustive and didn't believe there were additional classified
documents.
CNN, citing a source, reported that Pence's team does not
believe there are classified records at either his home or his
office.
The discovery of classified records in January put Pence in the
company of former President Donald Trump and incumbent President
Joe Biden after documents with classified markings were found at
their residences.
Biden, whose documents dated from his time as vice president,
and Trump, whose resistance to turning over the items led to an
FBI raid, are both facing special counsel investigations by the
Justice Department over improper handling of classified
materials.
FBI agents searched Biden's Delaware beach house on Wednesday,
but no classified documents were found, the president's attorney
said.
(Reporting by Rami Ayyub and Sarah N. Lynch; Editing by Ben
Dangerfield and Lisa Shumaker)
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