{"id":44564,"date":"2025-02-26T06:19:10","date_gmt":"2025-02-26T11:19:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/angry.net\/blog2\/?p=44564"},"modified":"2025-02-26T06:19:10","modified_gmt":"2025-02-26T11:19:10","slug":"ssa-fraud-expert-almost-fired-and-is-now-running-the-agency","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/angry.net\/blog2\/?p=44564","title":{"rendered":"SSA Fraud Expert almost fired and is now running the agency"},"content":{"rendered":"

Good day all. While working on another post, I saw this story about a fraud expert toiling away in obscurity at the Social Security Administration. When DOGE came knocking, he was quick to offer them whatever assistance he could. His job was, after all, trying to track down fraud and waste.<\/p>\n

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However, the acting head of the SSA had been dead set opposed to Elon Musk and DOGE coming in and doing their usual work of identifying all the fraud and waste in the agency. When she found out about one Leland Dudek working with DOGE, she had him suspended pending termination. It didn\u2019t quite work out the way she intended. Here are the details from the Daily Wire<\/b><\/a>:<\/p>\n

Leland Dudek was an obscure bureaucrat at the Social Security Administration who dedicated his career to stopping fraud. But when he worked with the Department of Government Efficiency to do just that, he came close to being fired. <\/b><\/p>\n

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\u201cAt 4:30pm EST, my boss called me to tell me I had been placed on administrative leave pending an Investigation,\u201d Dudek wrote on LinkedIn. \u201cThey want to fire me for cooperating with DOGE,\u201d he wrote in a now-deleted post obtained by The Daily Wire. <\/b><\/p>\n

Talk about managers not getting the message. President Trump issued an Executive Order regarding DOGE, Elon Musk and access to the various bureaucracies. After the initial attempt by USAID to block DOGE teams from entering and accessing the systems, it took a threat of arrest to make them get out of the way. Now USAID has been reduced to a smoking crater due to all the fraud, waste and corruption they found.<\/p>\n

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Then, a stunning reversal occurred. It was Acting Social Security Commissioner Michelle King who was out of a job. And Dudek was reinstated with a big promotion \u2014 taking her job leading the massive agency on an interim basis. <\/b><\/p>\n

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The Washington Post reported that King exited the agency after refusing to let DOGE access agency data and was replaced by Dudek. But it has not been reported that managers at the agency had moved to punish Dudek as he cooperated with the efficiency czars. <\/b><\/p>\n

I\u2019m not surprised that the Washington ComPost has left a few rather important details out. However, the major news is that a bureaucratic roadblock was summarily terminated and escorted out and the person she, or her minions, tried to fire for following Presidential directives was given her job. I have a sneaking suspicion that a number those minions will be on the unemployment line in the next few weeks.<\/p>\n