W. Samuel Patten

Early life and family Patten was born, raised and currently resides in Maine. His father is Bill Patten Jr., whose mother was the Washington, D.C. socialite Susan Mary Alsop and whose father was later alleged to have been the British politician Duff Cooper, with whom his mother had an affair. His father published a small-town weekly newspaper in Camden, Maine and became a prison minister. He was the Maine campaign director for the George W. Bush presidential campaign in 2000. Based in Washington, D.C., that Patten claims only has clients outside the United States. which referred the matter to the U.S. Attorney's Office for the District of Columbia and the Criminal Division of the Justice Department, which handled the prosecution. Additionally, after Patten was interviewed by Senate Intelligence Committee staff, "the Committee made a criminal referral to the Department of Justice" because of "concerns about certain statements made by Mr. Patten." In his subsequent guilty plea, Patten admitted to lying to the Intelligence Committee,

Patten detailed his experiences in his 2023 book 'Dangerous Company: The Misadventures of a Foreign Agent'.