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Musk’s DOGE Teen Was Fired By Cybersecurity Firm for Leaking Company Secrets​

(Bloomberg) -- Edward Coristine, a 19-year-old member of Elon Musk’s squad that’s criss-crossing US government agencies, was fired from an internship after he was accused of sharing information with a competitor.

“Edward has been terminated for leaking internal information to the competitors,” said a June 2022 message from an executive of the firm, Path Network, which was seen by Bloomberg News. “This is unacceptable and there is zero tolerance for this.”

A spokesperson for the Arizona-based hosting and data-security firm said Thursday: “I can confirm that Edward Coristine's brief contract was terminated after the conclusion of an internal investigation into the leaking of proprietary company information that coincided with his tenure.”

Afterward, Coristine wrote that he’d retained access to the cybersecurity company’s computers, though he said he hadn’t taken advantage of it.

More:

https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/oth...S&cvid=d51c728f07a24a479af74aeaf1e5e2c0&ei=12
 
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Lawmakers flooded with calls about Elon Musk: ‘It is a deluge on DOGE’​

Constituents have flooded the phone lines at the U.S. Capitol this week, many of them asking questions about billionaire Elon Musk “feeding USAID into the wood chipper” and his access to government systems.

Senators’ phone systems have been overloaded, lawmakers said, with some voters unable to get through to leave a message. The outpouring of complaints and confusion has put pressure on lawmakers to find out more about Musk’s project, heightening tensions between the billionaire tech mogul and the government.

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https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/poli...S&cvid=7d0c43fc8e1c42f8a1e332394bd07c22&ei=11
 
Supposedly (from what I read on X but did not try to verify - so take with a grain of salt), $84 million from USAID to Clinton Foundation which paid $3 million for Chelsea's wedding and $10 million for Chelsea's mansion.

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^^^^^
Here's Grok............(dyodd)

Did USAID pay any money to the Clinton Foundation, Chelsea Clinton's wedding and Chelsea's mansion?

The claims that USAID directly paid for Chelsea Clinton's wedding or her mansion are not supported by verified data. Here's a breakdown based on available information:

1. USAID Payments to the Clinton Foundation:
According to multiple fact-checks, including those from Newsweek and Snopes, there is no evidence to support that USAID gave $84 million directly to Chelsea Clinton. The Clinton Foundation itself received no direct funding from USAID between fiscal years 2008 and 2024, as per USASpending.gov data. However, the Clinton Health Access Initiative (CHAI), a separate nonprofit originally founded by the Clinton Foundation, did receive a grant of $7.49 million from USAID between 2019 and 2021, which was spent on its programs, not on personal expenses of the Clintons.

2. Chelsea Clinton's Wedding:
Claims that the Clinton Foundation funded Chelsea Clinton's wedding have been widely disputed. An email released by WikiLeaks in 2016 suggested that foundation resources were used, but no concrete evidence was provided. Bill Clinton explicitly denied these claims in 2018, stating, "No Clinton Foundation funds—dedicated to Haiti or otherwise—were used to pay for Chelsea's wedding." Various fact-checks, including from The Washington Post and CNN, have labeled these allegations as lacking evidence.

3. Chelsea Clinton's Mansion:
There is no credible evidence from reputable sources indicating that USAID funds were used to purchase or maintain Chelsea Clinton's home. Claims seen on social media platforms like X are often based on misinformation or speculation without substantiation.

In conclusion, while the Clinton Foundation has received funding for its programs from various sources, including a relatively small amount from USAID to CHAI, there's no verified connection between these funds and personal expenses like Chelsea Clinton's wedding or mansion. Social media posts suggesting otherwise are generally based on misinformation or misinterpretation of the facts. Always critically evaluate such claims and look for corroboration from reliable sources.
 
pmbug said:
Supposedly (from what I read on X but did not try to verify - so take with a grain of salt), $84 million from USAID to Clinton Foundation which paid $3 million for Chelsea's wedding and $10 million for Chelsea's mansion.

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Chelsie-dawg ain't got no pre-arranged pardon like Momma has.

JAIL TIME.
 
No 'direct' payments... but isn't USAID known for indirect payments as their specialty?

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Came across this on a different forum. No clue as to its veracity but I thought it was interesting so................

The clock struck 2 AM on Jan 21, 2025.​

In Treasury's basement, fluorescent lights hummed above four young coders. Their screens cast blue light across government-issue desks, illuminating energy drink cans and agency badges. As their algorithms crawled through decades of payment data, one number kept growing: $17 billion in redundant programs. And counting.

"We're in," Akash Bobba messaged the team. "All of it."

Edward Coristine's code had already mapped three subsystems. Luke Farritor's algorithms were tracing payment flows across agencies. Ethan Shaotran's analysis revealed patterns that career officials didn't even know existed. By dawn, they would understand more about Treasury's operations than people who had worked there for decades.

This wasn't a hack. This wasn't a breach. This was authorized disruption.

More:

eko.substack.com

OVERRIDE

INSIDE THE REVOLUTION REWIRING AMERICAN POWER
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Definitely interesting and doing the rounds .
If true, it’s a mind blowing step forward to honest government, if such a thing is possible.
I am uneasy about the claims that as a result of this small number of techies, potholes got filled and springfields water treatment plant suddenly got fixed …..
 
searcher said:
This wasn't a hack. This wasn't a breach. This was authorized disruption.
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Fake news.

It wasn't anything but a search algorithm.

No data was hacked, no information was changed. In fact I'm told anyone can access the system online, but searching it for word specific data is nearly impossible.

It was smart autists who knew how to speed up accessing 1.5 terabytes of data on an antiquated system.
 
Goldhedge said:
Fake news.

It wasn't anything but a search algorithm.

No data was hacked, no information was changed. In fact I'm told anyone can access the system online, but searching it for word specific data is nearly impossible.

It was smart autists who knew how to speed up accessing 1.5 terabytes of data on an antiquated system.
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I'm thinking you took it as serious reporting. I took it as a story of how the author envisioned things playing out. The guy has some interesting writings. You can check em out here:

eko.substack.com

EKO LOVES YOU | Substack

TRUTH SHINES THRU STORY. Click to read EKO LOVES YOU, a Substack publication with thousands of subscribers.
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I'm thinking he's a techie of sorts with an interesting look at things. He has this "after a 3+ year hiatus, i'm back to share deep truths thru illustrated stories" underneath the title to one of his stories: https://eko.substack.com/p/the-lost-years-jesus-in-india It's way off topic but interesting.
 


To be clear, what the @DOGE team and @USTreasury have jointly agreed makes sense is the following:

- Require that all outgoing government payments have a payment categorization code, which is necessary in order to pass financial audits. This is frequently left blank, making audits almost impossible.

- All payments must also include a rationale for the payment in the comment field, which is currently left blank. Importantly, we are not yet applying ANY judgment to this rationale, but simply requiring that SOME attempt be made to explain the payment more than NOTHING!

- The DO-NOT-PAY list of entities known to be fraudulent or people who are dead or are probable fronts for terrorist organizations or do not match Congressional appropriations must actually be implemented and not ignored. Also, it can currently take up to a year to get on this list, which is far too long. This list should be updated at least weekly, if not daily.

The above super obvious and necessary changes are being implemented by existing, long-time career government employees, not anyone from @DOGE. It is ridiculous that these changes didn’t exist already!

Yesterday, I was told that there are currently over $100B/year of entitlements payments to individuals with no SSN or even a temporary ID number. If accurate, this is extremely suspicious.

When I asked if anyone at Treasury had a rough guess for what percentage of that number is unequivocal and obvious fraud, the consensus in the room was about half, so $50B/year or $1B/week!!

This is utterly insane and must be addressed immediately.
 
Joe King said:
Or in other words, for longer than anyone reading these words have been alive.
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which allows corruption to fade into the fog of time.

Reminds me of the little girl watching her mother prepare a Thanksgiving roast.​
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Mom cut the end off the roast and placed the roast into the roasting pan.​
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The little girl inquisitively asked "Mom? Why do you cut off the end of the roast before putting it in the pan?"​
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Mother says "I don't know dear, it's how my mother always did it. She'll be here soon and you can ask her."​
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Granny comes over and the little girl asks granny the same question.​
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Granny says "I don't know dear, it's how my mother always did it. She'll be here soon and you can ask her."​
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Great granny finally arrives and the little girl dutifully asks her the same question.​
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Granny replied "Because it wouldn't fit in the pan dear."​


and that is how the US government has functioned for over 250 years until Trump!
 

Chris Cuomo explains why DOGE is attacking USAID first | Cuomo​

Feb 7, 2025 #USAID #CUOMO #Musk

NewsNation’s Chris Cuomo breaks down the connection between Elon Musk, the Department of Government Efficiency and the U.S. Agency for International Development. He said that while everyone wants to cut down on government waste, DOGE’s actions look “increasingly suspicious.”


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Trump Blurts Stunning Aside When Fox’s Doocy Presses Him On DOGE Access — ‘We Don’t Have Very Good Security’ In US​

President Donald Trump blurted a stunning admission when Fox News Senior White House correspondent Peter Doocy pressed him about DOGE accessing sensitive Treasury Dept. data

Trump held a joint press conference with Prime Minister of Japan Shigeru Ishiba on Friday, during which he faced a raft of Elon Musk–related questions.

Doocy kicked off with a provocative question about Musk’s “love” for Trump — but then pressed him to explain why DOGE needs access to “everyday Americans’ personal information.”

Trump began his answer by blurting out an aside that probably wasn’t reassuring to those “everyday Americans” concerned about their personal info:

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https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/poli...S&cvid=5c4a0de995164dd78e39de8c292dd2b6&ei=22
 


Treasury personnel have told @elonmusk and DOGE that half of treasury payments are fraudulent.

50 billion dollars a year in fraudulent payments are going out and no one in the government has ever looked into this.

DOGE and the US Treasury have agreed to new anti-fraud measures aimed at preventing tens of billions of dollars in fraudulent government entitlement payments each year.

Under the new rules, every payment will also need to include a reason in the comment field. Currently payments have no comments next to them which make it impossible to figure out if they are legitimate.

Another common sense reform that should’ve been enacted 20 years ago is a do-not -pay list which will stop payments from going to fraudulent entities, deceased individuals, and suspected terrorists fronts.

Anyone against any of this should go to prison. This is our money. We demand to know how it is being spent. We demand that there are safeguards in place.

We are supposed to be the most powerful country in the history of the world and our government is run by a bunch of abject morons who can’t even ensure they don’t sent entitlement payments to dead people and terrorists.

Like is this real life?
 

DOGE Takes On USAID Waste - Can It Really SAVE America?​

Feb 9, 2025

The Department Of Government Efficiency (DOGE) has decimated the waste at USAID. Where will DOGE attack next, and is it enough to help us start paying down the US debt or are we too far gone?
Elon Musk and Donald Trump are now taking aim at the U.S. Treasury Department where they have agreed on new anti-fraud measures aimed at preventing tens of billions of dollars in fraudulent government entitlement payments each year.
The next target for DOGE to cut waste and fraud of taxpayer money is the Department of Education.
I will look at the US government income, yearly deficit, debt and yearly interest expense and see if there is enough waste and fraud that DOGE can cut to get us on the track to ever paying down the principal on the US debt.
I will explain the national debt, deficit and interest on the debt as if it was an actual person.


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