Official admits fraud at government’s African aid agency; Trump tried to cut operation

Official admits fraud at government’s African aid agency; Trump tried to cut operation

The chief financial officer at the African Development Foundation has confirmed the Trump administration's claims of fraud by agreeing to plead guilty to directing hundreds of thousands of dollars in taxpayer money to a friend who performed little actual work.

Govt Official Who Tried to Bar DOGE From Inspecting His Books Pleads GUILTY to Corruption.

PULSE POINTSWHAT HAPPENED: Mathieu G. Zahui, the Director of Financial Management for the United States African Development Foundation (USADF), agreed to plead guilty in federal court on Friday to criminal allegations that he accepted kickbacks from a USADF contractor and attempted to hide the scheme from federal law enforcement.WHO WAS INVOLVED: Mathieu G. Zahui, the USADF, a Kenyan company owned by Zahui’s friend, the U.S. Department of Justic…

'USADF is garbage': Senior US foreign aid official will plead guilty to taking kickbacks, lying to feds

The U.S. African Development Foundation, a foreign aid agency that poured millions of taxpayer dollars into African initiatives over the past four decades, desperately fought the Trump administration's efforts to dismantle the agency and audit its finances.It's now painfully obvious why there was so much resistance to transparency at the U.S. Agency for International Development-adjacent outfit.Months after government watchdog Judicial Watch sue…

‘USADF Is Garbage’: Senior US Foreign Aid Official Will Plead Guilty to Taking Kickbacks, Lying to Feds

The official who blocked DOGE from accessing US African Development Foundation records admits wrongdoing.