When USAID got here beneath 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 absolutely 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 in all probability going to see fraud like this uncovered for years to return.
The Each day Wire studies:
USAID Contracting Officer Charged With Pandemic Bailout Fraud
A USAID worker in command of managing contracts for the company created a pretend 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,” based on a beforehand unreported court docket doc. “From not less than in or round March 2021, and persevering with by means of not less than 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 known as Naagode Consulting LLC, then utilized for a Paycheck Safety Program (PPP) mortgage beneath the coronavirus bailout package deal, claiming he labored at Naagode and the cash was needed to stop job losses.
Solely firms in operation in February 2020 had been eligible, so he falsely stated it was established in January 2020. To determine a lack of revenue, he stated the corporate had $40,000 in revenue in 2019 when it really had no revenue, prosecutors stated.
Is anybody actually shocked by this?
PPP loans had been paid out to Yusuf Akoll regardless of large purple 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 data or federal tax data.https://t.co/iLheH4PDEe
— Luke Rosiak (@lukerosiak) Might 10, 2025
Not content material to create pretend firms to steer cash to pleasant political insiders & CIA shell firms, seems people at USAID had been additionally creating pretend firms to ship cash to themselves https://t.co/0v9Fp5YSgK
— Mike Benz (@MikeBenzCyber) Might 10, 2025
It appears just like the scrutiny acquired by DOGE was greater than justified.
