The highest official on the FBI New York Subject Workplace was pressured to retire on Monday, sources confirmed to Fox Information Digital.
James Dennehy was appointed to the place by former FBI Director Christopher Wray in September 2024.
He shared the information of his departure with colleagues in an e-mail Monday, obtained by Fox Information Digital.
He mentioned that he had been knowledgeable late Friday that he would want to place in his retirement papers. “I used to be not given a cause for this resolution,” Dennehy mentioned.
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James E. Dennehy, assistant director in command of the FBI’s New York subject workplace, exits the Thurgood Marshall Courthouse after attending a courtroom listening to for New York Metropolis Mayor Eric Adams on February 19, 2025, in New York Metropolis. (Eduardo Munoz Alvarez/Getty Photographs)
“Regardless, I apologize to all of you for not having the ability to fulfill my dedication to you to function ADIC NY for no less than two years.
“However as I go away right now, I’ve an immense feeling of pleasure – to have represented an workplace of execs who will at all times do the suitable factor for the suitable causes; who will at all times search the reality whereas upholding the rule of legislation; who will at all times comply with the info irrespective of the place they lead and be unapologetic about it; who won’t ever bend, break, falter, or give up in your integrity; who will at all times deal with circumstances and proof with an overabundance of warning and take care of the harmless, the victims, and the method first; and who will at all times stay unbiased,” he added.
Dennehy offered a high 10 listing of issues he would miss about working for the FBI, although his commute was not one in every of them.
Among the many objects on his listing had been the investigations, the depth, the FBI model, the camaraderie, the badge, the independence and everybody he labored with.
“I have been advised many occasions in my life, ‘When you end up in a gap, typically it is best to give up digging,’” he wrote.Â
“Screw that. I’ll by no means cease defending this joint. I am going to simply do it willingly and proudly from exterior the wire,” he mentioned.
Dennehy’s departure is the most recent in a collection of oustings below President Donald Trump’s new administration.Â
Information of his departure, which comes shortly after the affirmation of FBI Director Kash Patel, and deputy director Dan Bongino, is prone to spark off new fears of politicalization throughout the bureau.
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A side-by-side of the FBI headquarters in Washington, D.C., and FBI Director Kash Patel. (Anna Moneymaker/Kent Nishimura)
Dennehy, a veteran of the U.S. Marine Corps, joined the FBI shortly after the 9/11 terrorist assaults in 2002, and obtained quite a few awards throughout his greater than 20 years as a particular agent.Â
His prolific profession included quite a few promotions and administration positions, together with latest promotions to serve within the FBI’s Washington, D.C., headquarters below the primary Trump administration, and as head of the FBI’s Newark Subject Workplace and its New York Metropolis Subject Workplace, respectively.Â
Most just lately, Dennehy was within the highlight for publicly sparring with the Trump administration over a questionnaire despatched to 1000’s of FBI personnel asking them to element their function within the sprawling Jan. 6 Capitol riot investigations.
Bureau personnel had cited fears of retaliation and political retribution for his or her roles, and Dennehy was among the many bureau workers who had urged his colleagues to “dig in” to guard the FBI’s independence from exterior interference.Â
He additionally performed a key function within the investigation into New York Metropolis Mayor Eric Adams, who was indicted on felony corruption expenses final fall earlier than the Justice Division abruptly moved to dismiss the case final month.
New York Metropolis Mayor Eric Adams was indicted on felony corruption expenses final fall. (AP/Julia Demaree Nikhinson)
The presiding decide within the case, U.S. District Decide Dale Ho, has not but granted the DOJ’s request, and as a substitute tasked an outdoor lawyer, Paul Clement, to advise him on the matter.Â
The departure comes simply days after Lawyer Normal Pam Bondi instructed the FBI’s New York Subject Workplace was chargeable for withholding 1000’s of pages of paperwork associated to Jeffrey Epstein.Â
Lawyer Normal Pam Bondi accused the FBI’s New York Subject Workplace of withholding Jeffrey Epstein information. (AP)
Bondi despatched a scathing letter to Patel final week demanding solutions as to why the paperwork weren’t made out there sooner, and had since vowed to fireside the individual accountable.
It’s not clear whether or not Dennehy had any function within the investigation, or whether or not his retirement was associated in any solution to these paperwork.
In his farewell notice to colleagues Monday, Dennehy mentioned he’s leaving with an “immense feeling of pleasure” to have represented an workplace of execs who will at all times do the suitable factor for the suitable causes” and “who will at all times search the reality whereas upholding the rule of legislation…” Â
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He added: “We is not going to bend. We is not going to falter. We is not going to sacrifice what is correct for something or anybody.”
