Former FBI agents allege they were illegally fired for having worked on an investigation that led to President Donald Trump’s indictment in the 2020 election interference case.
In a new lawsuit filed Thursday in Washington, two ex-agents said their constitutional rights were violated by “improper acts of political retribution.”
The civil suit, brought by plaintiffs proceeding under pseudonyms (John Does 1 and 2), names FBI Director Kash Patel, Attorney General Pam Bondi, the FBI and the Justice Department as defendants.
It’s the latest legal response to the second Trump administration’s revenge campaign, which has included firing people who did their jobs probing potential crimes that happened to include the actions of the once and future president.
“Based merely on Plaintiffs’ involvement in an investigation implicating then-former President Trump initiated during the Biden Administration, Defendant Kash Patel, Defendant Pamela J. Bondi, and elected officials with whom they acted in concert perceived Plaintiffs to be politically disloyal to President Trump and therefore targeted Plaintiffs for removal,” the former agents alleged in their complaint.
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Jordan Rubin
Jordan Rubin is the Deadline: Legal Blog writer. He was a prosecutor for the New York County District Attorney’s Office in Manhattan and is the author of “Bizarro,” a book about the secret war on synthetic drugs. Before he joined MS NOW, he was a legal reporter for Bloomberg Law.
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