Biden FBI, DOJ considered investigating Sen Kyrsten Sinema after she left Democrat party

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WASHINGTON — Officials in former President Joe Biden’s Department of Justice and FBI considered opening a criminal investigation into then-Sen. Kyrsten Sinema (I-Ariz.) for purported campaign finance law violations months after she left the Democratic Party, according to emails reviewed by The Post.

The communications reveal that a member of the DOJ’s Criminal Division, a prosecutor in then-DC US Attorney Matthew Graves’ office and FBI agents in the bureau’s Washington Field Office all discussed investigating Sinema in February 2024, 14 months after she announced her change in party affiliation.

Sinema’s chief of staff, Daniel Winkler, expressed concern when reached for comment that the probe was pursued for “partisan political reasons,” including punishing the former senator for refusing to support scrapping the 60-vote legislative filibuster.

The email exchanges began in response to The Post’s Feb. 1, 2024, report on Sinema’s six-figure campaign spending on a security detail, luxury hotels, cars, and concert tickets — with a prosecutor in Graves’ office flagging the story to the DOJ and FBI.

Over the following week, then-Assistant US Attorney Elizabeth Aloi discussed probing Sinema for potential violations of the Federal Election Campaign Act (FECA) with then-FBI special agent Walter Giardina — with the G-man saying he wanted to take up the matter.

“I’m interested in looking at the Sinema referral if its [sic] something you’re looking to assign,” wrote Giardina to a bureau colleague in a Feb. 2, 2024, email.

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