Missouri governor names Catherine Hanaway
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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 move appears to diminish the authority of the current deputy director, Dan Bongino, whose tumultuous tenure has included a pitched argument over files related to the disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein.
The Trump administration has named Missouri Attorney General Andrew Bailey to a new post of co-deputy director of the FBI alongside Dan Bongino. Bongino, who shared the report on X with the caption "Welcome,
Gov. Kehoe appoints Catherine Hanaway as the first women Missouri Attorney General. She replaces Andrew Bailey as he heads to Washington, DC, to serve as co-deputy director of the FBI. Hanaway was a U.S. district prosecutor near St. Louis #moleg pic.twitter.com/Ne8ukHnbeU
Bailey, appointed in 2022 by former Gov. Mike Parson, is the third Missouri Attorney General in six years to leave for a position in Washington, D.C.