Kash Patel Hit With Claim of Secret FBI ‘Slush Fund’

The Daily Beast

June 16, 2026

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Kash Patel Hit With Claim of Secret FBI ‘Slush Fund’

Kylie Cooper / REUTERSFBI Director Kash Patel may be using his own taxpayer-funded “personal slush fund” to pay his loyalists, a top Democrat says.Congressman Jamie Raskin, the top Democrat on the House Judiciary Committee, sent Patel a letter demanding more information about 8,000 in payments made to agents who execute Patel’s “unlawful partisan and personal orders.”Raskin said that Democrats on the House Judiciary Committee have been informed that Patel has signed off on more than 1 million in awards.Read more at The Daily Beast.

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