A 25-Year-Old With Elon Musk Ties Has Direct Access to the Federal Payment System
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The Bureau of the Fiscal Service is a sleepy part of the Treasury Department. It’s also where, sources say, a 25-year-old engineer tied to Elon Musk has admin privileges over the code that controls Social Security payments, tax returns, and more.

Summary

Marko Elez, a 25-year-old engineer linked to Elon Musk, holds access to Treasury systems managing federal payments nationwide with unprecedented administrative control.

Sources reveal Elez can modify code on sensitive systems, enabling bypass of security measures, which experts warn could risk critical government operations.

Elez’s career includes roles at SpaceX and X, contributing to advanced telemetry and AI projects, notably though he lacks prior government experience.

Senate Democrats express alarm as DOGE operatives infiltrate federal systems, fearing manipulation of payments that could disrupt funding for programs, research, and public services.

  • snekerpimp@lemmy.world
    611·
    4 days ago

    THIS IS A FUCKING COUP!! Musk and friends are taking over the government! Trump must be punished for allowing this to happen!

    • DarkCloud@lemmy.world
      173·
      3 days ago

      No it’s not, the coup already happened. This is a robbery, and one even I could pull off. Fed system withdrawals, straight into monero accounts, later converted to Bitcoins, then cash… So because monero is untraceable everything after that is untraceable. Maybe they’ll add a coin tumbler, but in all likelihood they wouldn’t have to. So more likely they just automate it and suddenly all be revealed to be billionaires later.

    • errer@lemmy.worldEnglish
      29·
      4 days ago

      …is what none of these people will face given Trump will just pardon them.

      • scarabine@lemmynsfw.comEnglish
        14·
        3 days ago

        I recognize what you’re saying but I’m done having this particular conversation, you know? I’m not saying you’re wrong if we fight, etc., or anything like that. I’m just saying I guess I’m comfortable with the futility and I don’t think it’s going to shut me up on this one.

          • Hasherm0n@lemmy.world
            2·
            3 days ago

            5.56 is is the standard ammo used by most NATO nations. It’s what (for example) most AR platform rifles are chambered for.

            It’s a specific bullet size to be very explicit.

            • SolarMonkey@slrpnk.netEnglish
              2·
              3 days ago

              Understood. I would have normally understood .22 or .50, but those are the only two I’m particularly familiar with…

              [Says the expert qualified former military idiot who only took the weapon quals because she had to… arcade light guns and listening are apparently really good training… (I’m as confused as the instructors were on that one…)]

    • vaultdweller013
      2·
      3 days ago

      Im more in favor of the Jack the Ripper methods of disposing of cheap whores.

      Nothing against prostitutes just wanted to say this.

  • Modern_medicine_isnt@lemmy.world
    51·
    3 days ago

    I really wish they would stop focusing on the age. With computers, those 25 year olds can be light years ahead of thier older counterparts. And musk isn’t expecting the guy to make any decisions that experience would help with. Musk just wants someone who does what he is told. Age really isn’t a factor here.