lmer, the FBI aviation unit head, following the reports, with Bloomberg Law noting that Palmer was pressured to resign. Wilkins, meanwhile, is suing Seraphin for defamation over prior claims that she was acting as a foreign agent. According to the articles, Director Patel's public defense of Wilkins came

ed Director Patel's flight logs, alleging that he used a taxpayer-funded FBI jet to attend Wilkins' October 25 performance at Penn State University. Seraphin criticized Director Patel on his podcast, saying, "We're in the middle of a government shutdown where they're not even gonna pay all of the employee