A 25-year-old who's worked for Elon Musk companies now has direct control over a Treasury system disbursements from which amount to a fifth of the US economy. He has high-level admin privileges on a mainframe housing all the code. Access granted as debt ceiling crisis looms, officials in charge of the area have resigned in protest.

https://www.wired.com/story/elon-musk-associate-bfs-federal-payment-system/

A 25-Year-Old With Elon Musk Ties Has Direct Access to the Federal Payment System

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.

WIRED

For those wondering, he didn’t apply for a job - he was installed by DOGE, similar to USAID takeover.

Trump signed an executive order allowing DOGE to effectively do whatever it wants, so now you have Elon running around installing people.

A 19 year old has been given admin access to the core US treasury financial system by Elon Musk’s DOGE.

He goes by the name of “Mr. Big Balls” online, is on Russian forums, and has tried to purchase DDoS botnets.

Elon has said sharing this information is illegal, so please do not press the boost button.

https://www.wired.com/story/edward-coristine-tesla-sexy-path-networks-doge/

DOGE Teen Owns ‘Tesla.Sexy LLC’ and Worked at Startup That Has Hired Convicted Hackers

Experts question whether Edward Coristine, a DOGE staffer who has gone by “Big Balls” online, would pass the background check typically required for access to sensitive US government systems.

WIRED
Treasury agrees to block additional DOGE staff from accessing sensitive payment systems https://therecord.media/treasury-agrees-block-doge-access
Treasury agrees to block additional DOGE staff from accessing sensitive payment systems

All but two Department of Government Efficiency staffers are temporarily stopped from accessing Treasury payment systems.

One of the members of DOGE, 25 year old Marko Elez, has resigned after journalists reported on his X posts.

Examples: “I just want a eugenic immigration policy, is that too much to ask”, “I was a racist before it was cool”, “Normalize Indian hate”.

He had tried to delete the posts. Elon tried threatening those reporting on it with legal action.

Marko was one of the people given admin rights at the US Treasury.

https://www.tpr.org/2025-02-06/member-of-elon-musks-doge-team-resigns-after-racist-posts-resurface

Member of Elon Musk's DOGE team resigns after racist posts resurface

Marko Elez had recently been given special access by a federal judge to highly sensitive payment systems in the Department of Treasury.

TPR
Journalists probably want to look through this guys tweets, too. https://web.archive.org/web/*/https://twitter.com/Gavin_Kliger (press the button for all content, Mastodon breaks the link).
Wayback Machine

ProPublica is building a live list of those working for DOGE, since DOGE hasn’t actually disclosed this info and Elon keeps saying reporting it is illegal. Includes many InfoSec people. https://projects.propublica.org/elon-musk-doge-tracker/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post
Elon Musk’s Demolition Crew

Elon Musk, the world’s richest man, has been unleashed on federal agencies. ProPublica is attempting to document who is working with him and what they are doing.

ProPublica
Elon has decided to bring back the DOGE staffer who tweeted about being a racist, wanted to normalize Indian hate, and said he wants a eugenics immigration policy.
Elon Musk's guide to handling his staff being directly racist.

The US Treasury Department has put out a cyber threat intelligence briefing saying "Continued access to any payment systems by DOGE members, even 'read only,' likely poses the single greatest insider threat risk the Bureau of the Fiscal Service has ever faced." https://www.wired.com/story/treasury-bfs-doge-insider-threat/

#threatintel

A US Treasury Threat Intelligence Analysis Designates DOGE Staff as ‘Insider Threat’

An internal email reviewed by WIRED calls DOGE staff's access to federal payments systems “the single biggest insider threat risk the Bureau of the Fiscal Service has ever faced.”

WIRED

One of the people in DOGE and given access to US government systems now is from the Telegram group The Com - known in cyber circles for swatting, doxxing, MFA abuse etc.

https://krebsonsecurity.com/2025/02/teen-on-musks-doge-team-graduated-from-the-com/

Teen on Musk’s DOGE Team Graduated from ‘The Com’ – Krebs on Security

Several of the people in DOGE are behind multiple cryptocurrency scams https://cryptadamus.substack.com/p/the-crypto-grifters-of-doge
The Crypto Grifters Of DOGE

How many crypto grifters does it take to screw up the machinery of state?

The Cryptocalypse Chronicles
The tweets of the DOGE staff member who said he was a racist etc have been removed from archive.org after a takedown request.

A federal judge has ruled all DOGE Teenage Mutant Techbro Incels must stop accessing US Treasury data immediately, and destroy all copies they took. A case is running claiming Elon Musk broke federal law.

The ruling backs up the CTI assessment by the now fired US Treasury threat intel analyst. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cjw4g2q62xqo

Judge blocks Musk team access to Treasury Department records

Nineteen state attorneys general sued the Trump administration after the Department of Government Efficiency (Doge) was given access.

BBC News

President Musk has tweeted that the judge is “corrupt” and called for him to be “impeached now” and the Vice President has said federal judges shouldn’t have legal power.

https://apnews.com/article/trump-judiciary-musk-separation-of-powers-balance-checks-069c169ea1ddf6eea76f502d544c4c16

Vance and Musk question the authority of the courts as Trump faces pushback

Top Trump administration officials are openly questioning the judiciary’s authority to serve as a check on executive power as the new president’s sweeping agenda faces growing pushback from the courts. Over the last 24 hours, officials ranging from billionaire Elon Musk to Vice President JD Vance, have criticized a federal judge’s decision early Saturday that blocks Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency from accessing Treasury Department records that contain sensitive personal data such as Social Security and bank account numbers for millions of Americans. They have also attacked the legitimacy of judicial oversight, a fundamental pillar of a Democratic system based on a separation of powers.

AP News

If you start to see the US judiciary’s authority dismantled- they’re the final check on executive power - then you’re in the endgame to authoritarian rule.

It’s not there yet. But one to watch. The party of law and order may be the party who successfully disband it, it looks like they’re flirting with trying.

Remember Marko Elez, who wrote the "You could not pay me to marry outside of my ethnicity.", “Normalize Indian hate” etc tweets, got a job at DOGE, and got given “read only” access to US Treasury systems?

It turns out he was given read/write access in error and it only noticed a day later. There’s a forensics operation going with his former laptop now (he resigned) to see what he did with the access as he was unsupervised.

https://therecord.media/treasury-fully-aware-of-risks-posed-by-doge-access-to-database

Treasury was ‘fully aware of the risks’ posed by DOGE access to payment systems, court filing says

A Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) employee was accidentally given the ability to edit a sensitive Treasury payment database, but he never did so and the mistake was quickly corrected.

Also, a US lawmaker has filed to try to impeach the judge who stopped access.

Just for the record, JD Vance, the "kid" you are referring to here was 25 years old when he tweeted things like "Normalise Indian hate" last month.

Which you know.

On Friday one of DOGE’s staff members published a blog about why they joined DOGE, citing the worst people imaginable of course. https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2025/02/doge-elon-musk-ron-unz-holocaust-substack-post-sailer-vdare-trump/
DOGE worker says he was radicalized by reading writer who denied Holocaust

In a since-deleted Substack post, a member of Elon Musk's team praised an essay by Ron Unz—who has called the Holocaust potentially a "hoax" and said Trayvon Martin was "a violent young thug."

Mother Jones
Of note - Elon hand picked a bunch of these people, and has been openly praising them on X (along with the US VP).
@GossiTheDog they are young, idolize him and will do anything he asks them to do. They don’t have the life experience to know what consequences or long term damage may come of their actions.