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orangecrush

(31,717 posts)
Tue Jun 16, 2026, 01:18 PM Yesterday

Kash Patel may have a 'personal slush fund' of taxpayer dollars to pay loyalist agents, says Raskin

FBI 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.

https://www.ms.now/news/kash-patel-may-have-a-personal-slush-fund-of-taxpayer-dollars-to-pay-loyalist-agents-says-raskin

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Kash Patel may have a 'personal slush fund' of taxpayer dollars to pay loyalist agents, says Raskin (Original Post) orangecrush Yesterday OP
Trying to silence the drunk's activities hookaleft Yesterday #1
And fabricate crimes by Trump's political opponents. orangecrush Yesterday #2
may have? progressoid Yesterday #3
"I uh wash too drunked to remimberize" struggle4progress Yesterday #4
This administration is a criminal enterprise. xuplate Yesterday #5
Anybody shocked by this? bagimin Yesterday #6
Nicole Wallace is coving this right now mnmoderatedem Yesterday #7
Kashyap Pramod Patel... have you heard of him? Blue Owl 17 hrs ago #8

mnmoderatedem

(3,915 posts)
7. Nicole Wallace is coving this right now
Tue Jun 16, 2026, 04:12 PM
Yesterday

Another day, another scandal in the trump administration. Ho hum.
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