Judge Tosses Kash Patel’s Defamation Lawsuit Against Frank Figliuzzi

A day after FBI Director Kash Patel filed a $250 million lawsuit against The Atlantic, he has lost a different defamation claim, against news analyst and pundit Frank Figliuzzi.

U.S. District Judge George Hanks Jr. dismissed Patel’s lawsuit against Figliuzzi, former assistant director for counterintelligence at the FBI, who has been an analyst for NBC News and MSNBC.

Patel sued after Figliuzzi, appearing on MSNBC’s Morning Joe last year, said of the FBI director, “Well, reportedly, he’s been visible at nightclubs far more than he has been on the seventh floor of the Hoover building.”