The FBI was conducting a deliberate search Wednesday of President Joe Biden’s Rehoboth Seashore, Delaware house as a part of its investigation into the potential mishandling of labeled paperwork, the president’s private lawyer stated.

The search follows a 13-hour, top-to-bottom evaluate of his Wilmington, Delaware house on Jan. 20, when brokers positioned extra paperwork with labeled markings and likewise took possession of a few of his handwritten notes.

The president has been voluntarily permitting the Justice Division into his residences as investigators search to find out how labeled paperwork from Biden’s time as vp and a senator wound up in his house and workplace. The probe adopted the Nov. 2 discovery of paperwork with labeled markings by Biden’s attorneys as they closed up an workplace on the Penn Biden Heart, a assume tank affiliated with the Ivy League faculty.

Paperwork have been additionally discovered at his Wilmington house by his private attorneys, who initiated a search after the Penn Biden middle paperwork have been found. The FBI additionally searched the Penn Biden Heart in November following the preliminary discovery of paperwork there, an individual conversant in the matter informed The Related Press on Tuesday.

“Below DOJ’s normal procedures, within the pursuits of operational safety and integrity, it sought to do that work with out advance public discover, and we agreed to cooperate,” stated the assertion from Biden’s lawyer, Bob Bauer. “The search immediately is an extra step in a radical and well timed DOJ course of we are going to proceed to completely assist and facilitate. We could have additional data on the conclusion of immediately’s search.”

An FBI spokeswoman referred remark to the Justice Division. A spokesman there didn’t instantly return a message in search of remark. It was not instantly clear whether or not any extra labeled paperwork have been discovered.

The Biden paperwork probe is being dealt with by a particular counsel, Robert Hur, the previous prime federal prosecutor in Baltimore. He’s beginning his work this week, inheriting a months-long investigation already undertaken by FBI brokers and Justice Division prosecutors.

The Bidens bought the house, which overlooks a state park adjoining to the seaside, in June 2017, months after he left the vice presidency.