Did we miss this last month? Kash Patel was caught running a slush fund.
Kash Patel accused of directing $1m to ‘slush fund’ to pay bonuses to loyalist agents
Kash Patel, the FBI director, has been accused of directing more than $1m in taxpayer-funded bonus payments to a small circle of loyalist agents as part of a “personal slush fund” that may have violated federal law.
Representative Jamie Raskin of Maryland, the ranking member of the House of Representatives judiciary committee, alleged Patel had authorized substantial recurring payments to agents in his inner circle and security detail.
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According to information received by the House judiciary minority committee, some agents received payments of nearly $8,000 every two weeks, despite already earning at the federal salary ceiling. While the exact total received by each individual remains unclear, the committee says it can confirm a number of agents received at least five such payments in consecutive pay periods, amounting to close to $40,000 per person.
The pace of disbursements was so rapid, the committee says, that FBI reserve accounts set aside for bonus payments were drained dry, causing some payments to bounce back from exhausted funds.
“Why are these agents receiving extra pay simply for doing their jobs?” Raskin wrote in a 15 June letter to the FBI director. “Are they, in fact, collecting bonus compensation for engaging in actions outside of their duties and outside of the law?”
The main beneficiaries, according to Raskin, were agents serving on Patel’s “director’s advisory team”. The unit was created in 2025 and tasked with examining internal documents and government materials to expose and discredit federal law enforcement officials who had investigated Trump and his allies.
Notus reported in May that the team has been referred to internally as a “payback squad” tasked with building politically motivated cases, including one modeled on the indictment of James Comey, the former FBI director.
Patel has filed a $250m defamation lawsuit against the Atlantic and reporter Sarah Fitzpatrick, who authored the article on his alleged drinking and absences.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/jun/17/kash-patel-slush-fund-bonus-loyalist-agents
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