{"id":28292,"date":"2024-12-12T12:41:11","date_gmt":"2024-12-12T12:41:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2024\/12\/12\/cynical-cash-grab-fbi-chief-nominee-kash-patels-profitable-links-in-the-non-profit-world\/"},"modified":"2024-12-12T12:41:11","modified_gmt":"2024-12-12T12:41:11","slug":"cynical-cash-grab-fbi-chief-nominee-kash-patels-profitable-links-in-the-non-profit-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2024\/12\/12\/cynical-cash-grab-fbi-chief-nominee-kash-patels-profitable-links-in-the-non-profit-world\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Cynical cash grab\u2019: FBI chief nominee Kash Patel\u2019s profitable links in the non-profit world"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Patel\u2019s non-profit Kash Foundation is linked to Maga-merchandise firms and spends much more on fundraising than it does on charitable giving<\/p>\n<p>The personal foundation of Kash Patel, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/donaldtrump\">Donald Trump<\/a>\u2019s controversial pick for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/fbi\">FBI<\/a> director, has directed donor money to a business controlled by its own vice-president, Andrew Ollis, a direct marketing entrepreneur whose business affairs are now deeply entangled with Patel\u2019s.<\/p>\n<p>Two websites associated with that non-profit direct visitors to an online clothing store, Based Apparel, an online Maga merchandising operation owned by Ollis and Patel.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2024\/dec\/12\/kash-patel-foundation-maga-merchandise-fundraising\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Patel\u2019s non-profit Kash Foundation is linked to Maga-merchandise firms and spends much more on fundraising than it does on charitable giving The personal foundation of Kash Patel, Donald Trump\u2019s controversial pick for FBI director, has directed donor money to a business controlled by its own vice-president, Andrew Ollis, a direct marketing entrepreneur whose business affairs &#8230; <a title=\"\u2018Cynical cash grab\u2019: FBI chief nominee Kash Patel\u2019s profitable links in the non-profit world\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2024\/12\/12\/cynical-cash-grab-fbi-chief-nominee-kash-patels-profitable-links-in-the-non-profit-world\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about \u2018Cynical cash grab\u2019: FBI chief nominee Kash Patel\u2019s profitable links in the non-profit world\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28292","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28292","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28292"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28292\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28292"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28292"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28292"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}