Patel Sues MSNBC Columnist Over Clubbing Report

The Hill reports:

FBI Director Kash Patel is suing an MSNBC analyst over a claim suggesting Patel was spending more time in nightclubs than the FBI’s headquarters. Patel’s attorneys argued Frank Figliuzzi, a former FBI official and frequent commentator on the channel, “crossed the legal line by fabricating a specific lie about Director Patel.”

Figliuzzi said during a May 2 broadcast of MSNBC’s “Morning Joe” that Patel was spending more time at nightclubs in Las Vegas than on the seventh floor of the Hoover Building, according to the suit. “Defendant knew that this was a lie when he said it,” Patel’s defamation suit reads.

Read the full article. The suit was filed, of course, in Texas. Patel lives in Nevada and MSNBC is headquartered in New York City.

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