The new FBI director says he plans to WFH and run things remotely from Las Vegas. But why won’t he answer about who else lives in his house? https://newrepublic.com/post/192150/kash-patel-work-home-fbi-vegas Kash Patel’s appointment as FBI director seems to be coming with conditions: He wants to live part-time in Las Vegas and work remotely, far away from FBI headquarters in Washington. Why Las Vegas? Patel has long called the city home, but what’s most intriguing is his actual place of residence. The FBI director lives at a home owned by Michael Muldoon, a Republican Party megadonor who runs shady time-share companies, reported the Nevada Independent earlier this month. Muldoon has been sued over allegations of running a “bait and switch” scheme in his time-shares, where “owners” didn’t actually own their properties and were gouged for fees at the same time. Muldoon appears to have a history of cozying up to law enforcement officials. He has donated a lot of money to the political campaigns of former Nevada Attorney General Adam Laxalt, whose office received multiple complaints about Muldoon’s businesses but never pursued them. And apart from sharing an address with Patel, Muldoon also has intricate business dealings with him, utilizing the same incorporation and legal services. Patel and Muldoon even took a golf trip together to Scotland back when the FBI director was a federal employee on the National Security Council, which could be an ethics violation. Patel at the time was barred from accepting gifts, and the NSC at the time wasn’t approving any trips. He also would have had to report the trip, and records aren’t available from that time to confirm whether he did or did not. All of this raises questions as to how Patel is going to run not one, but two, prominent federal law enforcement agencies (he is also head of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives) with such extensive ties to someone with questionable practices, living in Las Vegas part-time. It seems that the appearance of corruption is not a barrier to working in the Trump administration, even if you’re in charge of enforcing the law.
It's like Trump's golf, he needs to be somewhere with less scrutiny than an official office to do his real business with no visitor logs. Mafia tactics 101, no records.
Kash with Trump's ok should change the FBI mission to law enforcement only, rescinding the intelligence mission which was used unjustly against Christian nationalists. Rich guys buying law enforcement is a problem, just ask Soros.
Working from home is not the same thing as working outside of DC in a field office. Kash has been very clear that he want to decentralize the FBI back to the field offices and move load of people out of DC and closer to the field offices. Just sayin I don't automatically assume that he is in pajamas working from his basement just because he is outside DC and lots of DC employees are doing that. Or even worse, in their pajamas and not working but still getting paid. Take home message. More information needed.