FBI Director’s Taxpayer-Funded Trip To Olympics Faces Scrutiny

FBI Director Kash Patel’s four-day journey to Italy has reignited criticism of his journey at taxpayer expense.

The Italy journey culminated with Patel crashing the U.S. males’s Olympic Hockey staff’s locker room following their gold medal win over Canada. The New York Occasions reviewed Patel’s schedule in Italy and located that he had a number of hours of labor conferences, however loads of downtime.

The newspaper acknowledged that it was potential some occasions or conferences may need been saved off the schedule.

“Director Patel had extremely productive conferences in Italy centered on strengthening joint counterterrorism coordination, transnational crime enforcement, the extradition of excessive worth targets and Olympic safety planning with our closest allies,” Ben Williamson, a spokesman for Patel, instructed the newspaper.

Nonetheless, Democratic Congressman Jason Crow wrote on X that the journey amounted to blatant corruption, referring to it as taxpayers “funding the FBI Director’s Italian trip.”

The scrutiny over Patel’s journey has been ongoing, the Related Press reported, noting that Patel has used the federal government Gulfstream G550 for flights across the U.S. that seemingly had no legislation enforcement function.

The AP reported that in October Patel went to State Faculty, Pennsylvania, for a professional wrestling occasion. Patel’s girlfriend, nation singer Alexis Wilkins, carried out the nationwide anthem on the occasion.

Williamson defended Patel, the AP reported, saying he’s required to make use of the bureau jet for safety even when touring on a private journey.

“Kash himself has considerably restricted private journey — however he is allowed to take private time occasionally to see household, pals or his longtime girlfriend. He would not do it typically. He works way more full weekends than he does in any other case. And perhaps most significantly — ask anybody who works for him, he is on obligation 24/7 regardless.”