Former New Orleans FBI Special Agent in Charge Jim Bernazzani says he retired from the bureau yesterday to spend more time with his kids.

Bernazzani says with a 13-year-old boy and a seven-year-old girl in Houston, he was not interested in moving to Washington D.C., where the FBI wanted to move him after he told local media that he'd been approached to run for public office,

He says his children live in Houston but that New Orleans is still close enough to see them when he wants to do so.

He says emphatically, "I have no intention of running, nor shall I."

Listen to Jim Bernazzani talk about what he'll do next.

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Bernazzani says he does want to stay in New Orleans and help the city in some capacity,

He says, "My outlook is to help the youth craft an agenda to help the kids, primarily the African American kids an opportunity so they don't have to gravitate to the street drug trade."

Bernazzani will not say what position he might take, just that he's had offers in the private sector that pay more than a public service or political position.

He also says he never said he wanted to run for office, only that he was approached to do so.