Mark Fisher

The number one thing that made Patel richer during those years was the work that he did through a consulting group that he set up where his clients included the government of the country of Qatar.

That's a relationship that continues to this day, even as he's the FBI director.

Well, the Cash Foundation raised $1.3 million one year, and they spent something like $700,000 in expenses.

But they only gave away $200,000.

So out of the $1.3 million in revenue, only $200,000 went out in grants funds.

mostly in cash assistance to about 50 people who are not named.

So the idea here was to help people who were supposedly standing up against the deep state, against the government, but only $200,000 went to those folks.

More than that went to one of Patel's own friends, a business partner of his, who runs an advertising firm that was hired to do some promotion of the charity's operations.

So all told, we're talking about millions of dollars that Patel gained during those out years between administrations from his various business adventures and his representation of a Chinese company and the government of Qatar, all of these entities that did a lot of business with the United States government.

Sure.

And Shine's subsidiary, which Patel worked for, had a board that included investors who were accused of having ties to the Chinese military and the Chinese Communist Party.

So there have been some real questions about the ethics of that organization.

And yet Patel, when he took over as FBI director, said that he saw no need to divest his holdings in the Chinese companies.

To the contrary, in the case of his work for Cotter, Patel, after he took over the FBI, got a waiver from the U.S.

government that

That allows him to continue to handle matters related to the government of Qatar.

You know, the FBI deals with all sorts of terrorism issues around the world.

And so if anything comes up regarding Qatar, he will be allowed to continue to do that work, even though he took in some undisclosed amount for consulting matters.

services to Qatar in the years before he became FBI director.

We don't know the amount of money exactly that he got from Qatar because he never registered as a foreign agent, which the advocacy group Public Citizen says was a violation of federal rules.