The FBI’s Washington Field Office will be folding its federal public corruption squad, three people told NBC News.

The squad is the same one that assisted special counsel Jack Smith with his investigation into President Donald Trump. The criminal charges filed by Smith were dropped following the election.

The FBI special agents assigned to the squad will be reassigned, NBC News said. Sen. Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, the chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, had criticized the work of the public corruption squad for its partisan investigations.

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