Kashyap Pramod Vinod Patel [1] [2] was born on February 25, 1980, [3] in Garden City, New York, to Indian Gujarati immigrant parents. [4] [5] His parents first moved to Canada in the early 1970s from Uganda in East Africa, where they were facing ethnic repression.[4] [6] Subsequently, they moved to the United States and his father started working as a …

1 day ago · How fierce Trump ally Kash Patel could help reshape the FBI or Justice Department (ABC News) The Man Who Will Do Anything for Trump (The Atlantic) Kash Patel: The Magical Rise of a Self-Described ...

1 day ago · Kash Patel, President Donald Trump's choice to be director of the FBI, appears before the Senate Judiciary Committee for his confirmation hearing, at the Capitol in Washington, Jan. 30, 2025.

Dec 10, 2024 · The Justice Department secretly obtained phone records from two members of Congress and 43 staffers – including Kash Patel, President-elect Donald Trump’s pick to lead the FBI – during ...

Jan 20, 2025 · Kashyap Patel, of Nevada, to be Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation for a term of ten years, vice Christopher A. Wray, resigned. Organization. Department of Justice

Jan 30, 2025 · Kash led the defense of Jose Buitrago in United States v. Buitrago, a high-profile drug case in Florida in 2015. Buitrago was one of the Colombian nationals arrested in a major drug bust involving Operation BACRIM. Kash and his co-counsel successfully argued that key evidence was withheld by the prosecution, leading to Buitrago's release.

Jan 31, 2025 · Kash Patel is an American lawyer and government official who was selected by Pres. Donald Trump to serve as director of the FBI in his second administration. Patel held several posts during Trump’s first term (2017–21). He is especially known for claiming the existence of a ‘deep state’ in the U.S. government.

Jan 30, 2025 · Kash Patel, a one-time aide to President Donald Trump, will inch closer to leading the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) when he sits for his US Senate confirmation hearing on Thursday.

Dec 13, 2024 · Kash Patel, President-elect Donald J. Trump’s pick to be F.B.I. director, often burnishes his credentials as a former prosecutor even as he portrays law enforcement agencies as an inept and ...

Dec 9, 2024 · Years before he was Donald Trump ’s pick to lead the FBI, Kash Patel was a midlevel Justice Department lawyer who once drew the ire of a Texas judge who described Patel as being precisely...