Kari Lake (USAGM 'special adviser') is emailing ‘reduction-in-force’ (termination) notices to many VOA staffers who’ve been on paid leave since mid-March. She's also axing some who were brought back to implement her Potemkin Village VOA (reaching only 0.2% of our prior audience).
I’m hearing some at VOA who went outside for a mid-morning break to make a cell phone call or to smoke had their badges immediately deactivated and can’t get back in to the Cohen Federal Building.
Statement just issued by the named plaintiffs in the Widakuswara v Lake lawsuit (Patsy Widakuswara, Jessica Jerreat and Kate Neeper).
Kari Lake confirms she terminated today 639 employees at USAGM and VOA because “American taxpayers have been forced to bankroll an agency that's been riddled with dysfunction, bias, and waste. That ends now.“
Steve Herman
Quinn Norton