The Epoch Times reported that Bill Priestap, Assistant Director of the Counterintelligence Division, was retiring by the end of 2018. It quoted an FBI emailed statement: “Assistant Director Bill Priestap became eligible to retire and has chosen to do so after 20 years of service,” referring to the Bureau rule that employees over 50 may retire after 20 years. An FBI official told that paper he would leave “by the end of the year.”
Strider’s later bio dates the Counterintelligence tour December 2015 through December 2018 and says he retired from the FBI in early 2019. A speaker bureau page used in public bios says he concluded the FBI career in April 2019 after twenty-one years. Fox News, April 30, 2020, also described an early/April 2019 retirement in its Priestap explainer.
Those are statements and reporting about a departure. They are not a finding of misconduct. Family details published in some retirement write-ups are omitted here.