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Following the discovery of a Massive corruption scandal In the USAID, the Small Business Administration (SBA) commands a complete audit of all the government officers who exercised an authority rewarded as part of the agency’s commercial development program in the past 15 years.
In a letter obtained by Fox News Digital, the administrator of SBA, Kelly Loeffler USAID fraud is an “overwhelming reflection of systemic failures in surveillance and responsibility”. She added that fraud “was not an isolated incident”.
In response, Loeffler asked the associated administrator Tre Pennie, who oversees government contracts granted by SBA, to “act decisively” to repress any similar abuse in the agency.
Loeffler asked Pennie to immediately launch a large -scale audit of agency reward officers in 2010.
On the left: then, Senator Kelly Loeffler, RT-GA., Expresses himself during a re-election campaign rally on Monday March 9, 2020, in Marietta, in Georgia on the right: an American flag and an USAID flag fly over the USAID building in Washington, DC, United States, on February 1, 2025. (AP photo / John Bazemore and Reuters / Annabelle Gordon)
“The role of the federal government’s procurement officers is not ceremonial or self-security; it is rather immense authority and fiduciary responsibility,” said Loeffler. “The procurement process must be transparent and built on merit and not personal gain.”
This comes after USAID, an agency responsible for administering foreign civil aid, was essentially dismantled by the DOGE Waste, fraud and abuse discounts carried out under Elon Musk and President Donald Trump. This decision encountered massive demonstrations on the part of the Democrats who said that the reduction of the USAID would deplete and harm the beneficiaries around the world.
Despite the claims of the quantity of the agency, it was recently discovered that an influential USAID influential contract agent named Roderick Watson was able to carry out a massive and long -term corruption program dating from 2013.
Watson, 57, guilty To “the corruption of an official”, according to an MJ press release.
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The demonstrators have signs under the name of Pete Marocco, assistant administrator designed at the American Agency for International Development (USAID), attended a meeting with members of the Congress to discuss foreign aid, on Capitol Hill in Washington, DC, United States on March 5, 2025. (Reuters / Kent Nishimura)
According to at dojWatson sold its influence from 2013, with Walter Barnes entrepreneurs, Vistant owner, and Darryl Britt, owner of the approach, channeling the gains via the subcontractor Paul Young to hide their traces.
A Press release from the DoJ said that Britt and Barnes “regularly channeled bribes to Watson, especially in cash, laptops, thousands of dollars of tickets for a suite in a NBA game, a country wedding, liaison stops on two residential mortgages, cell phones and jobs for parents.”
The press release indicates that Watson would have received bribes “assessed at more than a million dollars as part of the program”.
Vistant was awarded in November 2023, as part of a joint venture, a contract of a value of up to 800 million dollars, one of the objectives of this contract being to solve “a variety of problems affecting the deep causes of irregular central America migration to the United States”, a problem of president Joe Biden Responsible for vice at the time, Kamala Harris, during his presidency.
A worker removes the sign of the American international development agency on its head office on February 07, 2025 in Washington, DC (Kayla Bartkowski / Getty Images)
Several days later, this contract was canceled after the USAID published an opinion which says Vistant was excluded from government contracts due to “proof of conduct of a lack of commercial honesty or integrity”.
The joint venture then succeeded in continuing the government for being registered on this exclusion list and was grouped the contract and received a payment of $ 10,000 in August 2024.
In his letter, Loeffler said that the USAID scandal “represents a collapse in the very guarantees that are supposed to protect the dollars of American taxpayers and ensure fair access for small legitimate businesses”.
She criticized the Biden administration for granted the $ 800 million contract to visit despite the company labeled by the USAID as lacking in “honesty and integrity”.
“The fact that a federal official has been able to act as a large -scale persistent fraud operation testifies to a failure of internal controls and a break in the contractual environment which requires immediate correction,” said Loeffler.
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She said SBA plays a “critical role” in federal contracts and “will not remain while abuses are perpetrated to the detriment of taxpayers and deserving of small businesses”.
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Loeffler said that the agency’s audit will start with high and limited competition contracts in the 8 (a) commercial development program (a) of SBA. The results will be referred to the US office of the Inspector General (OIG) and DOJ.
All civil servants or companies found in violation of the ethical standards of SBA or who have committed criminal fault Will be referred to the appropriate authorities and SBA will help the MJ recover the diverted funds, said Loeffler.
“We will not allow the public’s confidence to be discreetly eroded by stolen door agreements and uncontrolled discretion,” said Loeffler.
“We owe small American businesses to do things well,” she continued. “Your office has the authority, and now the mandate, to act decisively.”
