The Justice Department is reviewing a number of classified documents recovered last fall in a storage closet connected to an office used by President Joe Biden prior to his presidential campaign, the White House confirmed Monday.
The undisclosed number of records were discovered Nov. 2 by Biden’s personal attorneys in a locked closet as they were preparing to vacate a Washington, D.C., office space known as the Penn Biden Center used by the then-former vice president from 2017 until the launch of the 2020 presidential campaign.
Richard Sauber, a special counsel to the president, said the documents were immediately turned over the National Archives.
Since that time, Sauber said Biden’s personal attorneys have been cooperating the National Archives and a Justice Department review, headed by the U.S. attorney in Chicago.
The counsel did not describe the nature of the documents, only referring to a “small number” of documents.
The review was first reported by CBS News.
The Justice Department declined comment Monday.
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Disclosure of the review comes as the Justice Department is investigating Donald Trump’s handling of a trove of classified documents seized from his Florida estate by FBI agents in August.
The seizure followed repeated efforts to recover the Trump documents attempts, including by a grand jury subpoena served at the Mar-a-Lago property in June.
