FBI Director Kash Patel has filed a defamation lawsuit against former FBI Assistant Director for Counterintelligence and MSNBC columnist Frank Figliuzzi, accusing him of falsely claiming that Patel spends more time at nightclubs than working at FBI headquarters.
The lawsuit was filed in federal court in Texas on June 2. Patel’s legal team argued that Figliuzzi “crossed the legal line by fabricating a specific lie about Director Patel.”
Figliuzzi said of the FBI director on MSNBC’s “Morning Joe” on May 2, “Reportedly, he’s been visible at nightclubs far more than he has been on the seventh floor of the Hoover building. And there are reports that daily briefings to him have been changed from every day to maybe twice weekly.”
