FBI raids NY home of ex-UN weapons inspector Scott Ritter

Ex-UN weapons inspector Scott Ritter’s home in upstate New York was raided by the FBI as part of a federal investigation, Wednesday, officials said. An FBI spokeswoman confirmed to The Post that agents conducted a raid on the Delmar home as part of a federal investigation. She declined to comment further, citing the ongoing probe. 3

Ex-UN weapons inspector Scott Ritter’s home in upstate New York was raided by the FBI as part of a federal investigation, Wednesday, officials said.

An FBI spokeswoman confirmed to The Post that agents conducted a raid on the Delmar home as part of a federal investigation. She declined to comment further, citing the ongoing probe.

Ex-UN weapons inspector Scott Ritter’s home in upstate New York was raided by the FBI. REUTERS

FBI agents and New York state police could be seen searching Ritter’s home that afternoon, Albany TV station WNYT  first reported.

Agents and state police could be seen searching Ritter’s home in Delmar on Wednesday afternoon, WNYT reported.

The raid came a day after Ritter, the former chief weapons inspector in Iraq, palled around with Robert F. Kennedy Jr., who was in an Albany courtroom for a hearing over whether the independent presidential candidate should be on New York’s November ballot, the Times Union reported.

Agents and state police could be seen searching Ritter’s home in Delmar on Wednesday afternoon. WNYT

“Burgers with Bobby!” Ritter posted on X Tuesday, along with a photo of himself and the  bear-dumping Kennedy scion.

The photo appeared to be taken in Recovery Sports Grill, a bar and restaurant housed within the Hilton Garden Inn in Albany.

Ritter recently had his passport seized by the US Department of State as he tried to fly to Russia for a conference, according to the report.

Ritter recently had his passport seized by the US Department of State as he tried to fly to Russia for a conference, according to the report. WNYT

He’s also a sex offender who pleaded guilty in 2011 to having an explicit online chat with a detective who pretended to be a 15-year-old girl.

Ritter served as a weapons inspector in Iraq during the 1990s as part of an international effort to disarm Saddam Hussein’s regime. After resigning in protest in 1998, he became a vocal critic of US foreign policy in the run up to the Iraq War.

– Additional reporting by Vaughn Golden

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