My friend Jamie Raskin is one of the most careful and principled people in Congress. So when he says the director of the FBI may be running a taxpayer funded slush fund, I pay attention.
Here is what he found.
Kash Patel directed more than $1 million in bonus payments to a small circle of agents in his inner circle and on his security detail.
Some were getting nearly $8,000 every two weeks on top of salaries that were already maxed out at the federal ceiling. A number of them collected close to $40,000 over consecutive pay periods.
The payments came so fast that the FBI’s bonus reserve accounts ran dry and some checks bounced.
So who got the money?
Agents on Patel’s so-called "director’s advisory team."
That is the unit created in 2025 and described internally as a payback squad, built to dig up dirt on the law enforcement officials who investigated Trump and his allies.
Raskin has given Patel until June 29 to account for every payment, every recipient, and any internal review of whether this was even legal.
Patel should answer for all of it.
https://t.co/HZPeRJ2Kqg
My friend Jamie Raskin is one of the most careful and principled people in Congress. So when he says the director of the FBI may be running a taxpayer funded slush fund, I pay attention.
Here is what he found.
Kash Patel directed more than $1 million in bonus payments to a small circle of agents in his inner circle and on his security detail.
Some were getting nearly $8,000 every two weeks on top of salaries that were already maxed out at the federal ceiling. A number of them collected close to $40,000 over consecutive pay periods.
The payments came so fast that the FBI’s bonus reserve accounts ran dry and some checks bounced.
So who got the money?
Agents on Patel’s so-called "director’s advisory team."
That is the unit created in 2025 and described internally as a payback squad, built to dig up dirt on the law enforcement officials who investigated Trump and his allies.
Raskin has given Patel until June 29 to account for every payment, every recipient, and any internal review of whether this was even legal.
Patel should answer for all of it.
https://t.co/HZPeRJ2Kqg
🚨Congressman Thomas Massie dropped the bombshell everyone was waiting for: He revealed Epstein's hidden list and exposed Kash Patel for lying to the American people. Massie says: 'The FBI has files with the names of 20 other men involved with Epstein in the sex trafficking network, including a high-ranking government official.
SHUT IT DOWN: Trump canceled the investigation into his own “assassination attempt,” featuring the lone-wolf gunman with no online presence who regularly visited the FBI office and starred in a Blackrock commercial.
Imagine my shock.
The only thing Trump managed to do with the Iran war is to reveal his incompetency, embarrass our military, cause unnecessary deaths, create financial hardships for Americans and make Iran richer.
If those were his objectives, then mission accomplished.
🇺🇸 🇮🇱 Marjorie Taylor Greene says there are only two explanations for Trump, and both run through Israel.
Asked if Trump could be acting under pressure, MTG laid out two options and nothing in between: either somebody's holding Epstein or a threat on his life over him after Butler, or he's "literally serving the government of Israel."
Her case?
The hundreds of millions from Miriam Adelson, a lobbying machine that never sleeps, and 2027 NDAA provisions she says would bind the US military to Israel for good.
She says she watched the whole thing unfold from the inside.
@mtgreenee