Keystone Kash Fires FBI Veteran Over $60M Jet Date Debacle
Source: Daily Beast
Updated Nov. 2 2025 3:16AM EST
Published Nov. 2 2025 1:56AM EDT
The FBI has reportedly fired an official who had been at the bureau for 27 years, after stories of Kash Patel using an FBI jet to go on a date broke on Wednesday. Steven Palmer, who joined the bureau in 1998, was deputy assistant director of the FBIs Critical Incident Response Group (CIRG) and charged with overseeing its aviation units. His exit was made official on Friday, making him the third CIRG boss to be fired during Patels brief tenure, Bloomberg reported.
According to three people familiar with the situation who spoke to Bloomberg, Patel was outraged by articles and social media posts that highlighted his private jet use. The articles and posts proliferated after a self-styled FBI whistleblower drew attention to his flight logs.
Were in the middle of government shutdown where theyre not even gonna pay all of the employees that work for the agency that this guy heads. And this guy is jetting off to hang out with his girlfriend in Nashville on our dime? Kyle Seraphin, a former FBI agent said on his podcast. He flew a $60 million aircraft to go hang out there. Is that gross to anybody else?
Publicly available data for Patels plane shows the plane landing near Penn State on Oct. 25 before flying to Nashville later that evening. A now-deleted photo posted to Instagram by Patels girlfriend, country musician Alexis Wilkins, shows the couple attending a Real American Freestyle event at Penn State that evening.

Alexis Wilkins / Instagram
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Hugin
(37,048 posts)Patel is by far the most incompetent in a constellation of incompetence.
He needs to be clear that there are hundreds of nations and organizations who can muster thousands of assets to know exactly where the director of the FBI is and it is a constant. Many of those take great delight in making anything American, look bad.
Secondly, dating a person who derives their livelihood in the public as a performer makes it easier for these trackers. Because a performer advertises their itinerary to draw an audience. All they need to do is follow them knowing eventually the fool will show up.
Firing a 27 year veteran only makes American weaker and not so great.
Lonestarblue
(13,069 posts)His minions are simply following his lead. MAGA doesnt care about the moral and financial corruption because Trump is hurting the people they hateminorities, women, and LGBTQ+.
Tear down the whole White House? Fine, its just an old building.
Party at taxpayer expense? Fine. Presidents like Trump deserve a lit of time off.
Extort the leaders of other countries with bullying and threats? Fine. We dont need any friends.
Deport every undocumented person and all their children who are US citizens? Fine. They arent real citizens because they arent white. We trust Trump to decide who can be a citizen and who cannot.
Conduct Trump Org. business from the White House? Fine. Its okay that Trump has made over $2 billion in shady deals since becoming president again.
I believe there is literally nothing that Trump could do that would cause Republicans to call him out or offer resistance, and I include the possibility of gutting the White House and turning it into a gold-plated bordello.
kacekwl
(8,743 posts)Did he buy his girlfriend at the trump house of botox fake lips and boobs store ?
Botany
(75,735 posts)Gulf Stream jet but that people found out about it and that is what KA$H is mad about.
This is something out of Herman Goerrings play book when he stole millions and millions of
dollars worth of art, real estate, wine, food, and so on.
https://www.democraticunderground.com/100220764891
groundloop
(13,398 posts)I'm convinced that unless something drastic happens very soon that we're witnessing the downfall of America before our very eyes. And just like Germany before us I'm afraid that it will take many decades to get back to some sort of normalcy. I definitely won't live to see it, and sadly my children might not either.
Botany
(75,735 posts)now own the voting mechanisms and the elections already done.
GB_RN
(3,457 posts)Should be in jail. Seriously, fuck this corrupt piece of shit.
The next Democratic administrations DOJ will need to do a better job than a certain, former federal judge and AG. 😡
republianmushroom
(21,856 posts)mercuryblues
(15,973 posts)in their fake camo.
FakeNoose
(39,232 posts)It can't possibly be due to his ineptness, corruption and stupidity. Oh no!
It must be the FBI press relations employees' fault. Let's fire them all.
pfitz59
(12,021 posts)Trump and ALL his appointees are misusing government assets. There will be an accounting.