Kashyap Patel, Main Author of Secret Memo, Is No Stranger to Quarrels By

The following article by Katie Rogers and Matthew Rosenberg was posted on the New York TImes website February 2, 2018:

Kashyap Patel in a photograph posted in 2014.

WASHINGTON — Kashyap Patel is a lawyer who has sometimes run afoul of the rules.

As a lawyer in Florida, Mr. Patel, 37, entered and then dropped out of a charity bachelor auction featuring some colleagues after a blogger pointed out that his license to practice in the state appeared out of date. In 2016, as a counterterrorism prosecutor for the Justice Department, he was berated by a federal judge who then issued an “Order on Ineptitude” directed at the entire agency. And over the summer, in a trip arranged outside official channels, he traveled to London, where he tried unsuccessfully to meet with Christopher Steele, the author of the dossier that purported to details links between the Trump campaign and Russia, according to multiple people with knowledge of the trip. Continue reading “Kashyap Patel, Main Author of Secret Memo, Is No Stranger to Quarrels By”