According to the New York Post, FBI director Christopher Wray has been consistently taking advantage of the FBI's jet for private, personal trips, even though it's supposed to be used for counterterrorist purposes.
Miranda Devine documents Wray's gross abuse and how his impropriety is causing division in the FBI.
You'll remember, Wray used the same jet to fly away to his vacation home, leaving a congressional hearing early, on the same weekend the FBI raided Mar-a-Lago.
Here's Devine's story:
The FBI's Gulfstream G550 doesn't appear to have visited Saranac Lake again since The Post first reported on that trip, and two other flights on June 2 and June 5, 2022.
But the jet has been flying back and forth an awful lot to Atlanta, where Wray has a house in the exclusive Buckhead district.
According to flight monitoring website FlightRadar24, the Gulfstream has made eight trips in the past four months to Atlanta, most recently last Tuesday, Oct. 11.
It could be that Wray has important FBI business in Atlanta, but it currently is the No. 1 most popular destination for the FBI jet — and Wray's roots in the city run deep.
Wray's wife, Helen Howell Wray, is from Atlanta, where her family has been part of the elite for seven generations.
So, he's taking the government jet to ATL because he has a second home there. Sure, the FBI probably has offices in Atlanta, but we know that he's flying to Georgia because it looks slightly less suspicious than flying to the Adirondacks.
Devine goes on to document the dozen or so flights to and from Atlanta in the last few months, as well as several curious flights where the plane circled back to Virginia just a couple of hours after takeoff.
Whatever was the purpose of all those flights to Wray's hometown, they have set tongues wagging among current FBI agents. They have shared with former agents their suspicions that Wray is treating the FBI jet like his own private plane, and allege it amounts to "embezzlement" of government property, which is when someone "knowingly converts government property to one's own use."
"The FBI acquired the Gulfstream for the express purpose of moving its own Counterterrorism Rapid Deployment teams to anywhere in the world to deal with an act of terrorism," says one concerned former agent.
"At the time of discussions centering on the potential purchase of the FBI's own Gulfstream aircraft, the Bureau was acutely aware of its need and specific purpose, and the significance of never misusing the aircraft for any other travel, specifically to include the movement of FBI Executives unless directly related to terrorism investigations and incidents."
Yeah, we're paying for the director of the FBI who, by the way, is arresting peaceful pro-life protestors, raiding former presidents, and promoting bad agents involved in entrapment cases, to take vacations to his hometown.
It's not enough that his FBI is despicable, he wants us to fund personal vacations that he can more than afford.
Yeah, he's got MILLIONS and can afford to fly however he wants. But he wants YOU to pay for it.
The former agent says embezzlement under Title 18, U.S.C. 641 is distinct from other forms of theft in that "the physical taking of the property is often lawful … This can be as simple as using a government-issued vehicle or other device for personal use."
The statute was used "to great effect and impact, resulting in the indictment, guilty plea and firing of an FBI inspector, and two former FBI directors, one who resigned short of their term, and the other who was fired by President Bill Clinton."
No one's above the law, right Chris?
Maybe the law should be turned against the latest corrupt bureaucrat to head the FBI.
Republicans, don't hold anything back when the red wave hits in November.
