After Dan Bongino’s departure as Deputy Director at the FBI, his replacement has just been chosen. Christopher Raia, an FBI veteran who has been running the agency’s New York office, will serve as co-deputy director alongside Andrew Bailey. Check it out: FBI DEPUTY DIRECTOR: The head of the FBI’s New York field office, Christopher Raia, is expected to step into the bureau’s deputy director role, assuming the No. 2 spot previously held by Dan Bongino. pic.twitter.com/AwxK9V3y5v — NEWSMAX (@NEWSMAX) January 10, 2026 JUST IN: FBI veteran Christopher Raia has been named co-deputy director of the federal law enforcement agency after Dan Bongino’s departure. Source: Fox News pic.twitter.com/hG3chbzOcQ — Ashley (TeamTrump47) (@TeamTrump47) January 9, 2026 Christopher Raia has been serving at the FBI since 2003. He will begin at his new role in D.C. on Monday. The FBI says that the current head of the FBI’s New York field office, Christopher Raia, is being appointed as the agency’s co-deputy director — taking over the position @dbongino just left. Sources say Raia is expected to start in his new position as early as Monday. This… — Mike Levine (@MLevineReports) January 9, 2026 The FBI says that the current head of the FBI’s New York field office, Christopher Raia, is being appointed as the agency’s co-deputy director — taking over the position @dbongino just left. Sources say Raia is expected to start in his new position as early as Monday. This means that an agent will once again be in a deputy director role atop the FBI. Earlier this year, the FBI Agents’ Association said that, after being nominated as FBI director, @FBIDirectorKash assured the association’s leadership that an active FBI agent would take the reins of the deputy director — but Bongino then ended up as deputy director. When former Missouri Attorney General Andrew Bailey became Bongino’s co-deputy director in September, there still wasn’t an active FBI agent in the deputy director position. Now there will be. The New York Post has more: Raia, a career agent, was asked to take the FBI’s No. 2 position and he accepted, the bureau spokesperson said. Raia will report to Washington, DC, on Monday to start the new job. As deputy director, Raia will assist FBI Director Kash Patel and Co-Deputy Director Andrew Bailey manage the bureau’s more than 30,000 employees. Raia’s hiring means the unusual three-person leadership structure at the FBI – implemented when Bailey was hired in August amid reports of infighting at the bureau surrounding the handling of an investigation into pedophile Jeffrey Epstein – will remain in place. The new deputy director has been with the bureau since 2003 and served as the FBI’s top counterterrorism official before leading the New York Field Office. It’s unclear who will replace Raia in New York.