COURTESY FBI FBI Director Kash Patel met with field office personnel and leaders from FBI Honolulu’s local and federal law enforcement community.
COURTESY FBI FBI Director Kash Patel met with field office personnel and leaders from FBI Honolulu’s local and federal law enforcement community.
The director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation Kash Patel was in Hawaii last week “as part of his ongoing commitment to supporting front line efforts and strengthening inter-agency partnerships, ” according to a news release.
“During the visit, Director Patel met with field office personnel and leaders from FBI Honolulu’s local and federal law enforcement community, ” read the statement. “On a walking tour of the field office, the Director was briefed on FBI Honolulu’s top priorities, violent crime initiatives, and casework. Director Patel expressed his appreciation for the Honolulu team’s dedication to public safety and national security.”
The FBI would not say which partners Patel met with or what they discussed. Patel told local law enforcement about “current crime trends and threats to the homeland ” but the FBI did not say what those trends or threats are.
Patel did not meet with or take questions from the news media while in Hawaii.
“Thank you for your inquiry, however we do not have further comment beyond what FBI Honolulu issued in their release, ” read a statement to the Honolulu Star-Advertiser from the FBI’s National Press Office in Washington, D.C.
In 2008, then FBI director Robert S. Mueller III discussed multiple mortgage fraud investigations in Hawaii as a result of the fallout from the nation’s subprime mortgage crisis.
FBI Honolulu serves Hawaii, Guam, Saipan, and American Samoa.
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