Overview
- Rep. Jamie Raskin sent a letter, reported June 16, alleging FBI Director Kash Patel authorized over $1 million in awards to members of a Director’s Advisory Team and agents on his security detail.
- The letter says some agents received nearly $8,000 every two-week pay period and that several received at least five consecutive payments totaling about $40,000 each.
- Raskin asserts the payments appear to have circumvented statutory pay caps and that the award reserve was drained so quickly some payments bounced back from exhausted accounts.
- The letter raises the possibility the payments were used to secure silence from agents who allegedly witnessed Patel’s misconduct, a claim tied to prior reporting that Patel disputes and has sued over.
- Raskin demands documentation of recipients, salaries and legal analyses by June 29 but Democrats currently lack power to compel production, and the FBI has not publicly responded to the request.