The above YouTube video from CNN via Scripps News shows FBI Director Kashyap Patel partying and guzzling beer in the locker room at the Olympics with the U.S. Hockey team, which had just won a gold medal. Patel used an FBI jet to get to Milan and claimed he was on a business trip.
Members of the House Judiciary Committee have said Patel has misused the FBI Gulfstream G550 jet for other personal trips, including to travel to Scotland for a golf vacation, fly to Pennsylvania to watch his girlfriend sing at a wrestling match, to fly to a hunting ranch in Texas and to visit his elderly parents in Florida.
Dick Durbin, Ranking Member on the House Judiciary Committee, says (pdf) Patel’s misuse of FBI jets is interfering with the FBI’s ability to respond to high-profile crimes, like the shooting at Brown University. Durbin has asked the Government Accountability Office to investigate Patel’s misuse of FBI resources for personal reasons.
From https://www.cnn.com/2026/02/24/politics/kash-patel-fbi-jet-use-explained:
“Chris Wray doesn’t need a government-funded G-5 jet to go to vacation,” Patel said when appearing on Glenn Beck’s podcast in 2024. “Maybe we ground that plane — $15,000 every time it takes off.”