Posted on 05/11/2025 6:52:01 PM PDT by Red Badger
A USAID employee has been charged with fraudulently creating a fake company to secure COVID-19 benefits for himself, federal prosecutors said Friday.
Yusuf Akoll, who was in charge of managing contracts for the agency, made false statements to obtain Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) loans.
“Yusuf Akoll worked as a Senior Procurement Contract Specialist at the U.S. Agency for International Development,” according to a previously unreported court document.
“From at least in or around March 2021, and continuing through at least in or around August 2021, Akoll [made] materially false, fictitious, and fraudulent statements…that resulted in Akoll receiving two [Paycheck Protection Program] loans totaling approximately $16,666 that he was not entitled to receive.”
Prosecutors said that Akoll registered a company in Virginia called Naagode Consulting LLC in November 2020 before applying for a PPP loan under the coronavirus bailout package.
Akoll claimed he worked at Naagode and that the money was necessary to prevent job losses.
However, only companies in operation by February 2020 were eligible, so Akoll falsely claimed the company was established in January 2020. He also said the company had $40,000 in income in 2019—when it actually had zero—in order to claim a loss of income.
The Daily Wire reported that Akoll was accused of making false statements in Washington, D.C., federal court via an “information,” which typically signals a plea deal.
The news highlights how the federal government carelessly disbursed massive sums during the coronavirus pandemic.
The lack of basic verification—such as checking state incorporation records or federal tax returns—demonstrates how easily companies could obtain funds with false claims.
The fact that Akoll’s fake company was established in November 2020, despite claims it operated in January, supports accusations of government oversight failure.
Records show that Akoll was responsible for managing hundreds of thousands of dollars in contracts flowing to foreign countries, where the money was often difficult to monitor.
Earlier this year, Elon Musk referred to USAID as a “criminal organization” after reports alleged senior officials attempted to block individuals from the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE).
“USAID is a criminal organization. Time for it to die,” Musk wrote on his platform, X.
Musk followed up with another post, writing:
“Did you know that USAID, using YOUR tax dollars, funded bioweapon research, including COVID-19, that killed millions of people?”
Tip of iceberg
I don’t doubt it. There may be hundreds of these fake companies.................
Yusuf Akoll, there's an American Bureaucrat for ya!
The news highlights how the federal government carelessly disbursed massive sums during the coronavirus pandemic.
yep, carelessly, only to Democrats..............
Now get Bondi to open a Federal investigation, seize everything about USAID, completely eliminate all employees, and then dare a judge to try to stop it. If a judge tries, charge them with obstruction and put them in jail.
Was that wrong? Should I not have done that?
diversity.... once again
My dad was killed by COVID and this guy got paid by his and my tax dollars. F this guy.
So between March of 2021 to August...meanwhile my beautiful younger brother caught “covid” and got the “treatment” forced upon him and he died..all the while a guy named yosef is making big bucks..what a country.
Yusuf Akoll....Yusuf Akoll... I wonder if he is one of the Boston Akolls, or one of the Akolls from Atlanta?
I’ll bet there are many others seeing the corruption and deciding they want ‘their cut of the action’. Corruption breeds corruption. Look for more - it’ll be there.
I had a friend that died from the “treatment” of Covid. relatively healthy. I’ll never trust doctors or the FDA/CDC again.
The Covid grift will continue for years. The county in which I live still allows its employees to work from home. So does the state government in certain positions. Many of these employees do not put in the full day’s work for which they are paid.
There was so much “wolf” crying during the Coup-Flu that only a few Chicken Littles will take a REAL pandemic emergency seriously.
That may have been the game plan for “reducing the surplus population”.
Good old American boy from the deep south, Billy Bob Usuff Akoll.
Usuff Akoll = Useless At all ?
Great name for a mule.
According to DOGE their are thousands upon thousands of financial crimes that have been found. Congress should establish a special court to deal with them all.
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