A letter Kash Patel wrote to the Florida Bar in 2005 has resurfaced, revealing that the current FBI director was arrested twice in alcohol-related incidents during his student years, details he himself put in writing and which now sit at the centre of a widening controversy over his fitness to lead the nation's premier law enforcement agency.
The letter, obtained by The Intercept through a public records request to the Miami-Dade Public Defender's Office, was written at the instruction of Patel's employer as a disclosure required for his Florida Bar application. It records two separate incidents: one involving public intoxication while underage, the other a public urination arrest following a night out at bars in New York.
