FBI Director Kash Patel's lavish spending spree on taxpayer-funded job perks has become too much even for one leading Republican lawmaker. Patel has been widely condemned by Democrats and other critics for using a private FBI plane to fly across the country on personal trips, as well as making the bureau buy a fleet of flashy armored BMWs so he didn't have to ride around in the Chevrolet Suburbans typically used by FBI directors. Iowa Sen. Chuck Grassley has now written to Patel asking that Patel, 46, provide information to the House and Senate Judiciary committees, which have been scrutinizing his spending, MS NOW reported.