FBI agents seized the senator’s cell phone as they combed through conversations with his stock broker.
The FBI obtained a warrant for Sen. Richard Burr’s Apple iCloud account as part of a probe into his stock trades, according to the Los Angeles Times.
An unnamed law enforcement official told the Times that FBI agents served Apple with the warrant and got hold of data that was then used as evidence to obtain a second warrant for the North Carolina senator’s cellphone.
According to the Times, the FBI seized the Republican lawmaker’s cellphone on Wednesday night to assist with a Department of Justice investigation into stock sales Burr made at the start of the novel coronavirus pandemic.
The newspaper also reported that Justice Department investigators were looking at the North Carolina senator’s conversations with his stock broker.
