Judge Dismisses Patel's Defamation Suit Against Figliuzzi, Citing Hyperbole

A U.S. district judge tossed Kash Patel’s defamation claim against Frank Figliuzzi, ruling that Figliuzzi’s remark about Patel spending more time in nightclubs than at the FBI’s Hoover building was “rhetorical hyperbole” and not defamation. Patel cannot recover attorneys’ fees under Texas’ anti-SLAPP law. This comes a day after Patel filed a separate $250 million suit against The Atlantic, which is unrelated to this ruling.