Kash Patel, the Trump loyalist tapped to run the F.B.I., has provided fresh details about his life — including legal work on behalf of a human trafficker, membership in an exclusive Las Vegas club and participation in a diversity-and-inclusion program, in new documents sent to lawmakers.
In a 24-page questionnaire sent to the Senate Judiciary Committee this month, Mr. Patel also downgraded his work as a Justice Department investigator on the 2012 attack in Benghazi after claiming he had been one of those leading the inquiry.
The committee could schedule a hearing on Mr. Patel’s razor’s-edge nomination as soon as Jan. 29, according to several people with knowledge of the situation. As part of that process, Mr. Patel, 44, responded to a series of standard questions about his personal and professional experiences.
Most answers are written in job-application boilerplate, but taken as a whole the questionnaire paints a far more nuanced portrait than the bombastic and combative Mr. Patel projects on right-wing podcasts or as a speaker at Trump rallies.
In particular, it sheds new light on his early years as the Long Island-bred son of immigrants from the Indian state of Gujarat who worked as a caddy and toiled for years as a local and federal public defender in Florida.
He reports in detail on his legal defense of crack dealers, gun runners and one 2013 case in which he persuaded federal prosecutors to drop charges against a man accused of trafficking 17 people, including three minors, from an unnamed foreign country.