'Unprecedented': Prosecutors reportedly withdraw from probe into Trump-loving GOP lawmaker

Federal prosecutors who were investigating Rep. Andy Ogles (R-TN) over major discrepancies in his financial disclosures have officially withdrawn from the case, reports News Channel 5's Phil Williams.

Williams described the move to remove the Nashville-based prosecutors from the case was "unprecedented" and speculated that it could be a precursor toward the DOJ dropping the case all together.

"With no explanation, Acting U.S. Attorney Brian McGuire filed a notice late Thursday to withdraw Assistant U.S. Attorneys Robert S. Levine and J. Christopher Suedekum from an on-going legal dispute over the FBI's access to evidence seized from Ogles last year," reports Williams. "McGuire's motion said the case would now be handled completely out of the Department of Justice in Washington, D.C."

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At the center of the investigation has been a false claim that Ogles made in a financial disclosure form in which he said he personally lent his campaign $320,000, despite the fact that his finances do not show he had sufficient assets to make such a loan possible.

Ogles filed amended paperwork last May in which he acknowledged that he did not loan his campaign $320,000.

Nonetheless, the Campaign Legal Center (CLC) earlier last year filed a complaint against Ogles raised serious questions about the origins of the loan.

"While it is possible that Rep. Ogles has a non-interest-bearing bank account, it would be highly unlikely that such an account would contain such a substantial amount of money like the $320,000 he loaned to his campaign," the complaint stated.