FBI Says Its Top Lawyer Is Leaving the Bureau

FBI Says Its Top Lawyer Is Leaving the Bureau
Dana Boente, then-acting U.S. Attorney General, during a meeting at the White House on Feb. 7, 2017. Andrew Harrer-Pool/Getty Images
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WASHINGTON—The FBI’s top lawyer, Dana Boente, who has spent nearly 40 years with the Justice Department, is leaving the bureau.

Boente has most recently served as the FBI’s general counsel but has held a variety of roles in his 38-year Justice Department career, including acting attorney general in the early days of the Trump administration, a United States attorney in Virginia and the acting head of the department’s national security division.