Recently some old-timey retired financial crime investigators suggested to me an approach DOGE might take toward recouping billions of dollars ripped off from American taxpayers by grifters in the last dying gasps of that horror show called the Biden administration. I think it bears relating here. Are you listening, Elon?
The suggestion was prompted by an article by Matt Taibi regarding a $20 billion slush fund discussed publicly on X by new Environmental Protection Agency director Lee Zeldin. As Taibi says, “It’s a true, crazy, obscene story.” Hat tip to the good people at Project Veritas as well, who first cracked this story in December 2024, when they caught an EPA special assistant, Zach Efron, who worked on “climate change things,” admitting on camera that he and his EPA colleagues were rushing to push billions of dollars out the EPA door before the Trump team took over. Efron actually said to the PV folks that their policy was, “Get the money out as fast as possible before they [Trump Administration] come in … it’s like we’re on the Titanic and we’re throwing gold bars off the edge.” He also said, “It was an insurance policy against Trump winning.”
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