Among those tapped for the task are Antonio Gracias of Valor Equity Partners, who also served on the board of #Tesla Inc & was an early investor in #SpaceX …as well as Scott Coulter, formerly of Lone Pine Capital, & Michael Russo, formerly of Shift4….
Those names, confirmed in agency & court documents, underscore the importance that the #SocialSecurity agency has taken as a beachhead for #Musk’s #government *cost-cutting* effort.
#Trump elevated a mid-level anti-fraud specialist, Leland Dudek, to be #SocialSecurity’s acting commissioner last month — skipping over more than 150 higher-ranking supervisors at the agency.
Dudek had cooperated with #DOGE, helping to bring Russo & Coulter into the agency, according to a sworn statement filed Friday by #TiffanyFlick, the former agency chief of staff who retired when Dudek was promoted.
Russo arrived Feb 3, & “introduced himself as a #DOGE representative to multiple employees on multiple occasions,” #TiffanyFlick said. He now serves as the agency’s chief information officer. Russo also brought on Akash Bobba, a fmr intern for #PeterThiel’s #Palantir Technologies Inc, to *analyze* #SocialSecurity data.
