Rep. Trey Gowdy will reportedly rejoin his old law firm in South Carolina after he leaves Congress next week.
The Republican leader will return to Nelson Mullins Riley & Scarborough as a white-collar defense attorney, sources told the Post and Courier.
The outlet reported that upon asking him about it last week, he only shrugged and smiled, neglecting to confirm or deny the scoop. That was after he hinted on Fox News that he planned to work for a firm with whom he had some “history.”
A spokesperson for Gowdy did not immediately return the Washington Examiner‘s request for comment, and neither did Nelson Mullins.
Gowdy worked for Nelson Mullins in the 1990s before becoming a federal prosecutor.
Gowdy announced his intent to retire from Congress at the end of his term in January and has repeatedly expressed his frustration with politics. “Whatever skills I may have are better utilized in a courtroom than in Congress, and I enjoy our justice system more than our political system,” he said in a statement at the time. “As I look back on my career, it is the jobs that both seek and reward fairness that are most rewarding.”
Gowdy was elected to serve South Carolina’s 4th Congressional District in 2010.
He has been chairman of a number of high-powered committees, including Oversight. He also was in charge of the House Select Committee on Benghazi, which investigated the events surrounding the 2012 terror attacks.
