Kash Patel

In the reporting: FBI director whose consulting firm advised Qatar's embassy until November 2024, the Quincy Institute reported, and who replied with the draft when a White House official asked to edit the July 2025 memo on the Epstein files, Raw Story reported.

Last updated Nov. 6, 2026

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Consulting work for Qatar

Reported
The FBI director, Kash Patel, ran a consulting firm that advised Qatar's embassy until November 2024, the Quincy Institute reported, and he received an ethics waiver to work on Qatar matters.
Source: Quincy Institute. From: The Sheikhs on Every Side of the Table.

The July 2025 memo on the Epstein files

Reported
Emails obtained through a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit, and reported in October 2026, show that about two weeks before the Justice Department and FBI released their July 2025 memo on the Epstein files, Taylor Budowich, then a White House deputy chief of staff, wrote in an email thread about the draft: "Have something I can edit?" FBI Director Kash Patel replied with the draft, and the FBI blacked out Budowich's suggested edits, Raw Story reported.
Source: Raw Story. From: Epstein Got There First.

Response
Budowich could not be reached, the Justice Department did not respond, and the White House did not address his edits.

Where this person appears

October 26, 2026

Epstein Got There First

Years before Trump took office, Jeffrey Epstein pitched Gulf royals a trade of Israeli ties, port money and security technology. Today, men from Epstein’s files help run Trump’s Middle East policy, and the Justice Department is still withholding 2.5 million pages.

October 24, 2026

The Sheikhs on Every Side of the Table

Four days before the inauguration, a buyer tied to the UAE’s spy chief paid $500 million for half of the Trump and Witkoff families’ crypto company. In the months that followed, Washington approved the Emirates’ access to America’s most guarded AI chips three times and cleared the family business to enter the U.S. banking system.

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