African Development Foundation Sums Up Swamp

Jamie Raskin isn’t the only Swamp creature with good reason to oppose DOGE:

Mathieu Zahui, chief financial officer of the African Development Foundation, refused to grant DOGE access to its books and told the White House that the agency would not acknowledge President Donald Trump’s appointee as chairman of the board. After a dramatic showdown in March, DOGE physically took over the building with U.S. Marshals, but control of the agency is now the subject of a lawsuit objecting to “swooping in with DOGE staff, demanding access to sensitive information systems” — an objection that reads differently in light of the criminal probe.

For years, workers at the small, USAID-adjacent federal agency focused on Africa have told oversight bodies about allegations of self-dealing, procurement violations, and mysterious offshore bank accounts, many of them involving Zahui.

Suspicious grants to companies in Africa corresponded with wire payments to Zahui’s bank account.

It isn’t just Zahui. The African Development Foundation doesn’t want anyone poking around because the agency amounts to a crime scene:

By law, the agency is only allowed to give grants to Africa-based groups. But it moved money through African entities and then back to the United States to pad salaries of D.C. bureaucrats and pay their friends and former employers, employees said.

Americans being forced by their government to hand their money over to Africa-based groups is another crime that needs to end.

Even by DC standards, hatred of America’s core population has been rife at the African Development Foundation:

From 2021 until February, the agency was led by CEO Travis Adkins, who came to it after a short stint at USAID as a Joe Biden political appointee.

Adkins’ former assistant, who is black, said in a sworn affidavit that “On at least three occasions, Mr. Adkins told me that he wanted his entire team (to include the General Counsel) to consist only of Black people. He wanted all of his direct reports to be Black.”

The assistant said Adkins would not hire whites or veterans.

Adkins bragged about concealing operations from the board, saying “them white motherf—ers, they don’t need to know… I don’t think I should tell them sh–,” according to the assistant.

The federal behemoth developed by Democrats is an abomination hostile to most Americans and must be flushed clean.

On tips from R F and Bluto.

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