A former senior FBI official who reportedly oversaw a number of high-profile investigations in the lead-up to the 2016 election, including the probe into Hillary Clinton’s email server, had dozens of unauthorized contacts with members of the media before he resigned, according to the Department of Justice’s official watchdog.Michael Steinbach, the FBI’s former Acting Director of the Counterterrorism Division, had 27 in-person meetings with reporters from 2014 to 2017 and also attended two black-tie dinners in Washington as a guest of a reporter, according to the report from DOJ’s Office of Inspector General obtained by The Post.The OIG report, which was obtained through a Freedom of Information Act request, states Steinbach was “soliciting” a reporter from an unspecified outlet for a ticket to the White House Correspondents’ dinner in 2015, on the same night he attended the Radio & Television Correspondents’ dinner.
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