The court filing provides an accounting of the access #MarkoElez & other #DOGE employees have inside certain sensitive & secure databases. And it comes as federal judges in other cases have found the #ElonMusk-led effort has likely broken the #law & has been largely unable to explain why it needs such sweeping data access.
The #DOGE staffer who resigned from his post over old #racist tweets — & who broke data-sharing rules, an audit found — has been rehired to work w/sensitive data at several #FederalAgencies.
The staffer is #MarkoElez, a Dept of #Labor employee detailed to the DOGE entity within the #Trump WH, acc/to a Saturday court filing. It says the Labor Dept is aware of 4 other agencies, including #HHS, where Elez is also detailed or employed.
#law #privacy #NationalSecurity #USpol
https://www.npr.org/2025/03/31/nx-s1-5345708/doge-data-access-labor-cfpb-hhs
“These Are the 10 #DOGE Operatives Inside the Social Security Administration”
From #Wired (Thursday, March 13th, 2025): https://www.wired.com/story/doge-operatives-access-social-security-administration
#AkashBobba
#ScottCoulter
#MarkoElez
#LukeFarritor
#AntonioGracias
#ColeKillian
#JonKoval
#NikhilRajpal
#PaytonRehling
#EthanShaotran
More info on #MarkoElez (a worker bee for #ElonMusk and #DOGE).
Links: https://www.wired.com/story/treasury-department-doge-marko-elez-access, https://s3.documentcloud.org/documents/25520796/court-filing-on-feb-11-related-to-elezs-access-to-treasury-systems.pdf, https://www.wsj.com/tech/doge-staffer-resigns-over-racist-posts-d9f11a93, https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-14370085/Elon-Musk-DOGE-Marko-Elez-quits-racist-social-media.html, https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c93q625y04wo, https://bsky.app/profile/jeffstein.bsky.social/post/3liiaswr4422u
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WORKER BEES (Part 1 of 2):
#AkashBobba
#EdwardCoristine
#MarkoElez
#LukeFarritor
#GautierColeKillian
#TrumpCoup #TreasuryTakeover #Musk
UPDATE
*#BusinessInsider has procured a list of the (so far) 30 people working for #CoPresident #Musk's #DOGE*
(3/n)
...birthright citizenship."
"The records seen by #BI don't include the names of some #DOGE affiliates who have appeared in legal filings and news reports as working for other agencies, such as the Treasury employees #TomKrause and #MarkoElez. #Elez resigned from the Treasury Department last week after The #WallStreetJournal...
https://www.europesays.com/1830701/ A federal judge won’t immediately block DOGE access to the US Labor Department #america #business #DonaldTrump #ElonMusk #GeneralNews #GeorgeWBush #GovernmentAndPolitics #Inc. #JohnBates #labor #LaborUnions #Lawsuits #MarkoElez #Politics #SpaceX #tesla #U.S.DepartmentOfJustice #U.S.DepartmentOfLabor #UnitedStates #UnitedStatesOfAmerica #US #USNews #USA #USANews #WashingtonNews
DOGE Staffer Who Quit Over Racist Posts Is Already Coming Back to Work:
Elon Musk said it was time to “forgive” and move on.
https://newrepublic.com/post/191327/elon-musk-rehire-doge-staffer-racist-posts
" #Musk made #SocialMedia posts expressing his support for #MarkoElez, the #DOGE staffer who wrote in September that he couldn’t be paid to “marry outside [his] ethnicity,” and that people should “normalize Indian hate.” Musk also... attacking the #journalist who had brought the racist posts to light"
@jaykuo Now who the fuck really is this "doge" unter-cretin's employer? What is the actual legal status of "doge" and its minions?
Secondly it appears that this racist musk minion had the self-awareness of *resigning* instead of being fired. Doge's ability to hire, fire or in fact its ability to engage in anything is still a complete mystery.
Needless to say I want to see the apartheid spacekaren in the hook and on the dock for all his illegal and anti-constitutional activity yesterday already.
NOTE: Mastodon appears to have cached an earlier 'blurb'/edit of this BBC article. The current version of the headline reads: "Musk to rehire Doge aide who resigned over racist posts"
The US Treasury Claimed DOGE Technologist Didn’t Have ‘Write Access’ When He Actually Did:
...the ability of DOGE’s #MarkoElez to alter code controlling trillions in federal spending was rescinded days after US #Treasury & White House officials said it didn’t exist.
https://www.wired.com/story/treasury-department-doge-marko-elez-access/
"Elez was granted privileges... to not just read but write code on 2 of the most sensitive systems in the #US govt: the Payment Automation Manager (PAM) & Secure Payment System (SPS)"
Via the #DailyBeast @ 5:35pm ET on Feb 06, 2025
One of #ElonMusk’s #DepartmentOfGovernmentEfficiency goons resigned Thursday amid growing inquiries over his links to a #SocialMedia account pushing #Racism and #Eugenics theories.
#MarkoElez, 25, was identified earlier this week as the engineer who was granted access to the #Treasury’s “top-secret” payment system, which controlled #SocialSecurity and tax distributions.
https://www.thedailybeast.com/doge-staffer-jumps-ship-after-pro-eugenics-posts-surface/
DOGE Staffer Resigns Over Racist Posts:
Employee has links to a deleted social-media account that advocated for racism and eugenics
https://archive.is/gZvrj#selection-5729.0-5733.91
"The deleted profile associated with Elez, who was embedded in the #Treasury Dept... advocated repealing the #CivilRights Act and backed a “eugenic immigration policy” in the weeks before #Trump was inaugurated...
“Normalize Indian hate,” the account wrote"
Judge issues "an interim order preventing #ElonMusk & any **additional** #DOGE employees from accessing sensitive US Treasury #data while the case proceeds.
...access will not be granted to anyone **except for** #TomKrause & #MarkoElez, two "Special Government Employees" [DOGE boys already given access]...
Elez and Krause will have read-only access, and that access is limited as needed for performance of their duties."
https://www.citizen.org/news/interim-court-order-restricts-treasury-data-access-to-select-government-employees/
…After public sector #unions sued over the issue, a #Trump #DOJ lawyer said in court on Wed that only #TomKrause & #MarkoElez, both *#Treasury employees*, had been given access to info in the system, which they have not shared outside the Treasury.
Marko Elez, a fmr employee of #ElonMusk’s at both X & xAI, is one of several staffers that #DOGE had planned to install at the Treasury. They also include Krause, a well-established #SiliconValley software exec;
#BreakingNews
#TrumpCoup #TreasuryTakeover:
Via #WiredNews in #TheBackChannel #TPM
"#DOGE...not only has 
full access to these systems, he has already made extensive changes to the code base for these critical payment system[s].™
"A 25-year-old DOGE operative named #MarkoElez in fact has admin privileges on these critical systems, which directly control and pay out roughly 95% of payments made by the U.S. government, incl. Social Security checks,..."
https://talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/musk-cronies-dive-into-treasury-dept-payments-code-base
#JoshMarshall at talking points memo is claiming: (the rest of the story is in his paid newsletter, so I don’t know what else he thinks is important. Clearly capitalism is more important than a coup for Josh)
Overnight, Wired reported that, contrary to published reports that DOGE operatives at the Treasury Department are limited to “read only” access to department payment systems, this is not true. A 25-year-old #DOGE operative named #MarkoElez in fact has admin privileges on these critical systems, which directly control and pay out roughly 95% of payments made by the U.S. government, including Social Security checks, tax refunds and virtually all contract payments. I can independently confirm these details based on conversations going back to the weekend. I can further report that Elez not only has full access to these systems, he has already made extensive changes to the code base for these critical payment system.
