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PoliticsFBI Director Kash Patel may have authorized taxpayer-funded special payments to his inner circle of FBI executives and agents on his protective detail, according to the ranking Democrat on the House Judiciary Committee.
“We have been receiving troubling reports that you may be using part of the budget of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) as a personal slush fund to make tens or hundreds of thousands of dollars in unlawful ‘bonus’ payments to loyalist MAGA henchmen who have engaged in misconduct,” says a letter from Rep. Jamie Raskin, D-Md., to Patel, obtained exclusively by MS NOW.
Committee Democrats have information that Patel has issued more than $1 million in awards, the letter says. The letter says the money went to special agents serving on his Director’s Advisory Team, which Raskin’s letter describes as “a curated group of agents who are willing to carry out your unlawful partisan and personal orders.” It also went to agents on Patel’s security detail, “circumventing the mandatory maximum pay caps established by statute,” the letter says.
“It is not clear whether these bonus payments have simply been a corrupt attempt to slide cash to friends or whether they are also meant to ensure the silence of the agents who witness your inebriation and accompanying professional negligence and misconduct,” Raskin’s letter says.
Raskin showed up to work today.
Would it be moral to carry out an illegal order and for the purpose of immediately whistleblowing on it with hard evidence of the government performing the unlawful action? Asking for my bank account
hey man. gay for pay is not cheap. Being on his personal detail may not fill you with pride but it will fill your pockets with money.
Shocked I tell you, I'm shocked. And amazed it took this long
Yow.
Raskin might have just painted a much more serious target on his back - simply expelling him might not be enough for the fascists any more.
Hopefully some more congress critters will grow a backbone and join him.
