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The Guardian - US
The Guardian - US
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Jason Wilson

‘Cynical cash grab’: FBI chief nominee Kash Patel’s profitable links in the non-profit world

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Kash Patel walks through the US Capitol between meetings with senators in Washington on 10 December 2024. Photograph: Graeme Sloan/EPA

The personal foundation of Kash Patel, Donald Trump’s controversial pick for FBI director, has directed donor money to a business controlled by its own vice-president, Andrew Ollis, a direct marketing entrepreneur whose business affairs are now deeply entangled with Patel’s.

Two websites associated with that non-profit direct visitors to an online clothing store, Based Apparel, an online Maga merchandising operation owned by Ollis and Patel.

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