Federal police have launched a search of the home of the former Vice President of the United States. Mike Pence In search of secret documents, the Wall Street Journal writes, citing sources familiar with the case.

The Justice Department is in talks with Pence’s legal representatives to schedule an investigation. Lawyers for Pence did not immediately respond to a request for comment on the story.

According to CNN, the office of the former vice president will also be searched.

In January, the former vice president’s attorney, Greg Jacobs, said that at his home in Indiana, secret documents were found and that he had turned them over to the FBI.. He said it was “a small number of documents that could potentially contain classified or confidential information.”

With reference to a source close to him Pennywrites the newspaper, its legal advisers consider the previous investigation exhaustive and do not believe in the existence of any other secret documents.

forgotten, Secret documents have also been found at the residences of former President Donald Trump and current President Joe Biden., since he was Barack Obama’s vice president. Both are under investigation by the Department of Justice for mishandling classified material.

Wednesday FBI agents they ransacked Biden’s country house in Delaware, but found no secret documents.

Source: APE-MPE-Reuters