Hi there, everyone. It's 4 o'clock in the East. The desire to create a slush fund to reward

political loyalists doesn't appear to start and stop with Donald J. Trump. Shocking new reporting

by MS Now's Ken Delanian finds that embattled FBI director Cash Patel stands accused of using more than

$1 million in taxpayer funds to reward the FBI agents who went after Patel's enemies

and who covered up Cash Patel's misbehavior in office, weakening our nation's chief

law enforcement agency in the process.

Our Kandelan reports this about a letter that ranking member of the House Judiciary Committee,

Congressman Jamie Raskin, sent to Cash Patel.

It reads, quote, the letter says the money went to special agents serving on his

director's advisory team, which Raskin's letter describes as,

quote, a curated group of agents who are willing to carry out your unlawful, partisan,

and personal orders. It went to agents on Patel's security detail, quote, circumventing the

mandatory maximum pay caps established by statute.

By issuing these side payments, your office may be knowingly breaking the federal law, the letter says.

In some cases, nearly $8,000 payments have been made to multiple,

nearly $8,000 payments have been made to multiple individuals every two-week pay period, despite many of the

beneficiaries of your selective generosity already maxing out on a federal employee's salary.

The letter goes on to say it is unclear exactly how much each of the agents has received,

but adds this, quote, we can confirm that numerous loyalist employees have received

at least five such payments in consecutive pay periods, amounting to nearly $40,000 per agent.

We can also confirm you have depleted this reserve at such a frenzied rate that some of the payments have bounced back from

exhausted accounts. Here's more from that stunning letter from Congressman Jamie Raskin.

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