Posted on 08/30/2025 10:14:45 AM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
Staff at the African Development Foundation, a USAID-affiliated federal agency, have returned to work after a D.C. judge overturned the Trump administration’s abolition of the agency — even as a new inspector general’s report blasted the agency for misleading Congress.
A USAID inspector general’s report released Thursday lists Mathieu Zahui as one of the agency’s current top employees, even though the IG told a D.C. judge last year that it had seized Zahui’s phone and found evidence that he took secret payments from a company to which he steered suspicious contracts.
Early in the Trump administration, Zahui told the White House that the agency would not recognize Trump’s appointment of Peter Marocco, who successfully disbanded USAID, as acting chairman of the African agency. Staff subsequently locked the doors to physically prevent DOGE auditors from entering.
The Trump administration ultimately took control of the building with the assistance of U.S. Marshals and laid everyone off. But after an African company sued on the basis that all of its profits came from the U.S. agency, complaining that shutting down the agency would cause it irreparable harm, a D.C. judge granted an injunction temporarily invalidating Marocco’s moves. D.C.- and Africa-based staff and contractors were all immediately reinstated to their jobs and canceled grants were restored, despite the fact that a ban on new foreign grants remains in effect, significantly reducing the amount of work for them to do.
Thursday’s IG report made that reversal all the more remarkable, finding that the agency had only raised a quarter of the money from African partners that it publicly took credit for, that nearly half of its grants had insufficient documentation, and that the agency did not conduct any “due diligence” before entering into financial agreements with African entities.
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Uh huh.
Can’t dismantle it? Fine. Relocate it to a remote outpost in Alaska and assign it with studying the dirt. And no remote work.
Africans. What else is new.
If all they have to do is claim that being fired causes “irreparable harm”, then all they’d have to do is show that relocating them also causes “irreparable harm”. The whole issue is whether the federal government HAS to keep the gravy train rolling once it has ever started, because any time they stop it, it will cause someone “irreparable harm” - which, to this judge, is all it takes to force the government to keep paying out.
Time to amend the rescission bill
Somebody should get a housekeeping job for this judge, do a terrible job - maybe even breaking stuff in his house so that the judge takes losses for having them at his house - and then when the judge tries to fire them, sue him saying that he is their only client so him firing them causes “irreparable harm”.
And then some other judge should use his own precedent to say that this housekeeper has to be hired for life, can never be fired for any reason.
Halfricans?
A USAID inspector general’s report released Thursday lists
Mathieu Zahui as one of the African agency’s top employees,
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<><>Early on, Zahui told Trump the African agency would not recognize Trump’s appointment
<><>Peter Marocco had disbanded USAID, and was made acting chairman of the African agency.
<><>African staff locked the doors to physically prevent DOGE auditors from looking at its books.
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There is no continent more corrupt than the African continent. With all the rich minerals and oil, the people there are still generally impoverished.
Smells to me like the consequences of Obama's "fundamental transformation" -- especially when viewing the Biden administration as Obama's "third term."
From siphoning government monies into Leftist goals, to supporting illegal migrants, to Left-leaning geopolitical goals, and more, this all seems like 'last gasp' strategies for failed policies begun decades back.
Drain it of funds
All I can guess is that President Trump is banking on mid-terms to deliver Republican majorities of both House and Senate before lowering the boom on these corrupt judges with new and newly-enforced laws and redefinition of their powers.
judges keeping crooks on the payroll
He was caught and still wants back for more ,LOL
If one does not prosecute a corrupt government official, the problem will only grow and embolden. Administrative soft remedies only make things worse. Lisa Cook should have been indicted, then fired. USAID officials misappropriation of funds should have been indicted and prosecuted.
I don’t see the judges name?
Sound like the African staff are a bunch of crooks
Wildlife
Don’t they fit in? Aren’t they wild life?
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