Acting Attorney General Matthew Whitaker erroneously said Wednesday that a terrorist who set off bombs in New York and New Jersey last year had two “overseas” accomplices helping him.

Whitaker made the claims about the case of convicted terrorist Ahmad Rahimi while addressing a group of New York Police Department and FBI officials in Manhattan, The Associated Press reported.

Rahimi, a U.S. citizen born in Afghanistan, was sentenced to life in prison back in February after he detonated a series of bombs last year that wounded 31 people.

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Whitaker reportedly inaccurately told officials that the bomber had “two alleged co-conspirators overseas.”

“One of them attempted to buy a plane ticket to come here and participate in those attacks. Now he’s getting a plane ride back to America but it’s an extradition order,” Whitaker was reported saying.

However, the AP noted that there was no mention of co-conspirators at Rahimi’s trial and there are no reported extradition orders for his alleged accomplices.

A spokeswoman for the Justice Department told the AP that the agency would issue a “correction” for Whitaker’s claims and said his references to Rahimi’s nonexistent accomplices were “inadvertently” included in his remarks.

The comments were reportedly struck out of the text of Whitaker's speech posted on the Justice Department's website.

Whitaker was appointed acting attorney general earlier this month after President Trump Donald John TrumpBiden on Trump's refusal to commit to peaceful transfer of power: 'What country are we in?' Romney: 'Unthinkable and unacceptable' to not commit to peaceful transition of power Two Louisville police officers shot amid Breonna Taylor grand jury protests MORE asked former Attorney General Jeff Sessions Jefferson (Jeff) Beauregard SessionsGOP set to release controversial Biden report Trump's policies on refugees are as simple as ABCs Ocasio-Cortez, Velázquez call for convention to decide Puerto Rico status MORE to resign. Whitaker was previously Sessions's chief of staff.