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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
Joe Sommerlad

Kash Patel sued a news pundit for saying he spent more time in nightclubs than at the office. The lawsuit got thrown out.

FBI Director Kash Patel has seen a defamation lawsuit he brought against an MS NOW pundit who accused him of spending more time in nightclubs than at the office dismissed by a Texas court.

Patel was incensed when former FBI official Frank Figliuzzi appeared on the Morning Joe breakfast show on May 2 last year and told hosts Joe Scarborough and Mika Brzezinski that the director had “been visible at nightclubs far more than he has been on the seventh floor of” the bureau’s headquarters in Washington, D.C.

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