Earlier this week, we reported on the news that FBI Director Kash Patel is suing The Atlantic, alleging that the magazine defamed him with a recent article about his alcohol intake and job performance.
In the wake of the article, Democrats in Congress have called on Patel to answer questions about his drinking under penalty of perjury.
Patel has repeatedly denied that his drinking is an issue, but he may have trouble making his case in the wake of today’s news that he has twice been arrested for alcohol-related violations.
According to The Intercept, when Patel began working for the Miami-Dade County Public Defender’s Office in 2005, he wrote a letter elaborating on disclosures from his Florida Bar application relating to the two arrests.
He explained that the first incident occurred in February of 2001, when he was a junior at the University of Richmond.
He was under 21 years of age at the time and claimde that he had only had two drinks before getting ejected from the crowd at a Richmond basketball game for “excessive” cheering.
He paid a fine as a result of that run-in with the law.
The second incident occurred in 2005, when Kash was a law student at Pace University in New York City.
