Posted on 03/21/2025 9:30:17 PM PDT by Red Badger
Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) recently exposed a scandal revealing federal employees stealing millions of taxpayer dollars to purchase luxury cars, jewelry, and vacations. The story broke on The Daily Wire on March 19, 2025, and reveals more than a decade of corruption from the Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service (FMCS), originally established to mediate disputes between unions and businesses, eventually devolved into a haven of unchecked extravagance and nepotism.
Investigations into FMCS corruption date back to the early 2010s during the Obama administration; despite disclosures of lawlessness, significant action never happened due to political inaction and a lack of effective accountability mechanisms. Implicated officials were politically protected or even promoted rather than disciplined. The Democrats opted not to pursue charges or restructure the agency, allowing systemic abuses to persist until President Trump’s administration finally took action.
Occupying an unnecessarily lavish nine-story building on Washington, D.C.’s K Street, the FMCS had only 60 of its 230 employees reporting to the office, with many working remotely long before COVID-19. Managers enjoyed oversized suites with private bathrooms; one manager even converted her bathroom into a smoking lounge. The corruption included the top high-ranking officials exploiting loopholes by classifying themselves on indefinite business trips to Washington and charging taxpayers for everyday living expenses.
Former director George Cohen notoriously used taxpayer-funded accounts to buy champagne, $200 coasters, and artwork painted by his wife. The agency also commissioned elaborate portraits of its leaders, spending thousands. FMCS employees openly disabled safeguards on government-issued credit cards, charging personal luxuries without consequence. One employee leased a BMW, and IT director James Donnen billed the government for his wife’s phone and cable services at multiple residences. Another employee, Dan Funkhouser, spent $18,000 on jewelry and used taxpayer funds for personal storage.
The story resurfaced recently and earned a massive reaction on X. For example, one account said, “BREAKING—It’s been revealed that 60 employees at the Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service (FMCS) stole millions in taxpayer funds, spending them on BMWs, jewelry, luxury vacations, and personal portraits while listing top staff as on a 6-year business trip to cover rent and meals.”
The American public was rightfully furious, causing several accounts to voice their opinions on the corruption. One X user added, “The more this corruption is revealed, the more I wonder how America survived. It’s way overdue that the officials who robbed the Country & taxpayers become to be made accountable.”
Elon Musk, the head of the Department of Government Efficiency, also weighed in on the fraud that plagued the FMCS. Elon added in response to the breaking tweet, “Yeah, this scam has been going on for a long time. Not anymore. @DOGE” Here is a Fox News interview with Musk from March 10, exposing why Democrats do not want waste and fraud turned off; watch here:
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Although previous investigations into FMCS revealed widespread corruption, accountability remained nonexistent. Referrals to the FBI yielded no prosecutions, and some implicated employees even received promotions during the Obama administration. President Trump’s decision to dismantle the FMCS with the help of Elon Musk and DOGE finally addressed this egregious example of federal overreach and waste, closing an agency whose own employees acknowledged its uselessness and excess.
Featured image credit: screengrab from the embedded video
Ain’t Communism wonderful.
Gosh, no wonder Democrats wanted a potato as commander in chief.
Get the best security, Mr. Musk!
Remember the name Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service (FMCS). Democrats have been demanding an example of fraud found by DOGE. Here’s one and it’s only the tip of the iceberg.
Why should this surprise people? Such graft also occurs in the private sector: I knew people in the places I worked that regularly charged personal expenses on their company expense accounts and credit cards. Who drove company cars with their families as though they owned the vehicle, and charged gas/oil/maintenance to the company as well. This was especially true for cars/trucked leased by the company.
CAn we send these folks to El Salvador?
I’m beginning to wonder if fed-up vigilantes could start hunting down these bastards and offing them the way Luigi Mangione killed Brian Robert Thompson.
Present employees can still be prosecuted. Depending on the statute of limitations, some past employees can also be prosecuted.
We was robbed.
If true, and I hope it is, why aren’t we seeing charges being brought?
book em before the miscreants absconded.
And when do we see this money going to offset the deficit??
All this unimaginable theft and there will still be Democrats scolding us to pay our fair share.
Those that are prosecuted should have their names and faces plastered all over television.
Maybe eventually he’ll get around to the EV scams, but that would require some introspection.
I’m sure it’s just the tip of the federal iceberg, too.
These same grifters who smear Musk and scream that the rich should pay their fair share are stealing our tax money. They have no shame.
It’s the same insanity that has people torching Cyber Trucks in the dealerships because Elon Musk is saving our tax money from graft and corruption. Those Cyber Truck and Tesla sales pay a lot of taxes; so what is their real reason?
It’s the same insanity that condemned the Trump MAGA movement as a threat to Democracy and will bring fascism. It’s ironic that these are Marxists who are actually engaged in terrorism. With them, we see the ends justifies the means causing terrorism that is worse. Their mask is off. Their aim is worse than all they imagine about MAGA supporters. They are in a war to end capitalism. Behind the scenes are the rich funding all the chaos. Their aim is to bring about an oligarchy. Oligarchies are not capitalist systems. They may look like unbridled capitalism - but a capitalist system is also a system of laws - laws that dictate the flow of capital. Oligarchies are systems of laws that allow for the hoarding of wealth—the exact opposite. Think of oligarchies as systems of legalized theft. The theft and hoarding of wealth means money doesn’t circulate. It will lead to violence and social collapse.
A 6-year business trip
To where ??? The space station ???
And not one arrest
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