The General Services Administration’s Inspector General will review the agency’s controversial decision to keep the FBI headquarters at the J. Edgar Hoover Building site on Pennsylvania Avenue.
The investigation, announced Wednesday by Rep. Gerald Connolly (D-Virginia), comes after the agency faced intense scrutiny from Congress over the selection process and a potential White House intervention.
Senators at a Feb. 28 hearing repeatedly asked GSA and FBI officials whether President Donald Trump, whose company owns a luxury hotel one block from the Hoover Building, had intervened in the decision. The officials declined to answer.
The Feb. 12 decision to keep the FBI on Pennsylvania Avenue angered local officials from Maryland and Virginia, whose jurisdictions had been included among the previous three finalists for the $2B campus, and D.C., which had hoped to activate the prime site with a mix of uses.
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