FBI Director Kash Patel is under fire for using taxpayer funds on personal trips, including flying his girlfriend and ordering expensive vehicles. Senator Chuck Grassley demands reimbursement records.
FBI Director Kash Patel’s lavish spending spree on taxpayer-funded job perks has become too much even for one leading Republican lawmaker. Patel has been widely condemned by Democrats and other critics for using a private FBI plane to fly across the country on personal trips, as well as making the bureau buy aPatel, a former MAGA podcaster with no prior experience in law enforcement, has also been found making diva requests on official work trips, including demanding meetings take place during soccer matches or other funIowa Sen.
Chuck Grassley has now written to Patel asking that Patel, 46, provide information to the House and Senate Judiciary committees, which have been scrutinizing his spending, “For each trip where you used an FBI aircraft for personal travel, have you reimbursed the FBI as required by law? If yes, please provide the records,” Grassley, 92, who is chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, wrote.
Tom Williams/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images While Grassley acknowledged that it is standard policy for an FBI director to use the agency’s private jet—even for personal travel—he said there has been so much scrutiny surrounding Patel that Congress needs to conduct an “independent and objective review. ”The embattled Patel faced waves of criticism last year after he was found to have used an FBI jet to watch his country singer girlfriend, Alexis Wilkins, 27, perform at a wrestling event in Pennsylvania.
It has been reported that Patel assigned a security detail for Wilkins, who, on more than one occasion, asked agents to drive one of her inebriated friends home after partying in Nashville. In December, MS NOW reported that Patel ordered the FBI to purchase several BMW X5s for the director’s use, believing they would be “less conspicuous” than the traditional Chevrolet Suburbans. In their own letter to Patel, the ranking Democrats on the Judiciary committees—Rep. Jamie Raskin and Sen.
Richard Durbin—said they “appreciate Chairman Grassley raising these concerns, which mirror those raised repeatedly by House and Senate Judiciary Committee Democrats. ”“Your lack of judiciousness regarding your personal travel and dubious use of official travel appear to violate not only government ethics law and Department of Justice policy, but also White House directives,” Durbin and Raskin wrote.
“Despite its myriad failures and hypocrisies on this point, the Trump Administration has expressly promised Americans that it would crack down on waste, fraud, and abuse of government spending and has reportedly directed officials to limit their travel, particularly overseas travel or travel unrelated to the president’s agenda. ”
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