Elon Musk has installed a group of unvetted young operatives without security clearances into critical positions within the U.S. government as part of his DOGE team, granting them unprecedented access to sensitive data and systems.
Musk’s associates, many of whom are recent college graduates or current students, and even one of whom is still a teenager, now have access to highly sensitive information, including the personal data of federal employees, classified information from various agencies, and Treasury payment systems controlling trillions of dollars.
These operatives have taken alarming steps to infiltrate Washington, including moving beds into offices for round-the-clock work and installing unauthorized private servers in government buildings. They’ve also intimidated and fired career civil servants.
When information about these appointments and actions began to circulate, there were swift attempts by Elon Musk to hide their identities.
Even more concerning, Trump-appointed U.S. Attorney Edward R. Martin Jr. issued warnings of potential prosecution for naming these individuals.
Here are their names:
Akash Bobba: 21-years-old. UC Berkeley student. High school graduate less than 3 years ago. Access: OPM databases. Background: Internships at Meta, Palantir.
Edward Coristine: 19-years-old. 2022 high school graduate. Currently in college. Former Neuralink intern. Access: OPM employee health records, classified USAID data.
Amanda Scales: Former xAI HR staffer. Current role: OPM Chief of Staff, Involved in federal workforce restructuring.
Brian Bjelde: SpaceX HR veteran. Access: Federal employee medical histories, payroll systems.
Riccardo Biasini: Former Boring Company engineer. Access: IT infrastructure controlling federal HR databases.
Gavin Kliger: 25-years-old. Former Twitter and Databricks engineer
Access: USAID classified systems, OPM health insurance data.
Luke Farritor: 23-years-old. Thiel Fellow, former SpaceX intern, Access: Medicare/Medicaid payment systems, Notable: AI-decoded ancient Herculaneum scrolls in 2024.
Gautier Cole Killian: 24-years-old. Former Jump Trading engineer. Access: Treasury’s $6 trillion/year payment infrastructure.
Ethan Shaotran: 22-years-old. Harvard senior, AI startup founder, Access: USAID and Education Department systems.
Marko Elez: 25-years-old. Former SpaceX engineer. Access: Treasury payment systems responsible for dispersing almost all payments made by the federal government.
Marko Elez has administrator-level access to the Treasury Department’s payment systems, a revelation that led a Treasury source to tell WIRED, “You could do anything with these privileges.”
According to sources who spoke to Talking Points Memo, Elez “has already made extensive changes to the code base for these critical payment systems.”
Federal workers within these offices are scrambling to see if anything can be done to shut down access. David Lebryk, a former senior U.S. Treasury official, quit after DOGE attempted to gain the access they now have.
