When USAID got here below the microscope of DOGE, individuals on the left completely flipped out. All of them acted like USAID was above reproach and that the world would come to an finish if it wasn’t totally funded.
Not solely did the world not finish, however now we’re studying {that a} senior officer for the group has been charged with bailout fraud from the pandemic.
We’re most likely going to see fraud like this uncovered for years to come back.
The Daily Wire stories:
USAID Contracting Officer Charged With Pandemic Bailout Fraud
A USAID worker answerable for managing contracts for the company created a faux firm to fraudulently safe coronavirus advantages for himself, federal prosecutors stated Friday.
“Yusuf Akoll labored as a Senior Procurement Contract Specialist on the U.S. Company for Worldwide Growth,” in accordance with a beforehand unreported court docket doc. “From a minimum of in or round March 2021, and persevering with by means of a minimum of in or round August 2021, Akoll [made] materially false, fictitious, and fraudulent statements…that resulted in Akoll receiving two [Paycheck Protection Program] loans totaling roughly $16,666 that he was not entitled to obtain.”
Prosecutors stated that in November 2020, Akoll registered an organization in Virginia referred to as Naagode Consulting LLC, then utilized for a Paycheck Safety Program (PPP) mortgage below the coronavirus bailout package deal, claiming he labored at Naagode and the cash was needed to forestall job losses.
Solely corporations in operation in February 2020 had been eligible, so he falsely stated it was established in January 2020. To ascertain a lack of earnings, he stated the corporate had $40,000 in earnings in 2019 when it truly had no earnings, prosecutors stated.
Is anybody actually shocked by this?
PPP loans had been paid out to Yusuf Akoll regardless of large crimson flags, together with the truth that he was a full-time USAID worker and the corporate he claimed the bailout for would not match up with state company information or federal tax information.https://t.co/iLheH4PDEe
— Luke Rosiak (@lukerosiak) May 10, 2025
Not content material to create faux corporations to steer cash to pleasant political insiders & CIA shell corporations, seems people at USAID had been additionally creating faux corporations to ship cash to themselves https://t.co/0v9Fp5YSgK
— Mike Benz (@MikeBenzCyber) May 10, 2025
It appears just like the scrutiny obtained by DOGE was greater than justified.
