A federal judge has unsealed two FBI affidavits that helped investigators obtain warrants in 2024 to search Tennessee Republican Rep. Andy Ogles’ email and cell phone as part of a criminal investigation into his campaign finances. The affidavits say FBI Special Agent Brent Hayden believed there was probable cause that Ogles falsely reported $300,000 in personal loans to his 2022 congressional campaign. The filings said the alleged conduct could violate federal laws against making false statements, falsifying records and conspiracy. Those are allegations in a warrant application, not a finding of guilt. Ogles had reported loaning his campaign $320,000, then amended his campaign-finance filings in May 2024 to acknowledge that the claims were not true. The FBI investigation followed questions about how he could have made the loans. Ogles has said he was targeted by a “weaponized” Justice Department and that his Fourth Amendment rights were violated. U.S. Magistrate Judge Alistair Newbern approved two search warrants on separate occasions, according to the documents. The affidavits, released by U.S. District Judge Waverly Crenshaw, are extensively redacted. They do not identify people investigators considered potential co-conspirators or fully disclose the scope of the FBI’s inquiry. Some redactions may relate to how Nashville businessman Lee Beaman was listed as treasurer on Ogles’ campaign accounts. During a Senate confirmation process last year, Beaman said he had not signed or compiled campaign reports and had no role in the campaign’s bank accounts. The records had briefly appeared on a federal court system before Ogles’ lawyers sought to have them sealed again. Crenshaw initially granted that request, then lifted the seal after a legal challenge brought on behalf of Scripps Media by attorney Paul McAdoo, who was representing the Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press. After the FBI seized Ogles’ phone in August 2024, prosecutors agreed not to review evidence while courts considered Ogles’ argument that some material might be protected by the Constitution’s Speech or Debate Clause. Nashville prosecutors later withdrew from the case, and in May 2026 the Trump administration dropped the investigation and agreed to return or destroy seized evidence, according to court filings described in the records’ history. Ogles lost the Republican primary in August 2026 to former Tennessee Agriculture Commissioner Charlie Hatcher, ending his bid for a third term. His campaign finances had also drawn scrutiny from the House Ethics Committee; such inquiries commonly close when a member leaves Congress.