Behind DOGE’s Many Conflicts of Interest and Elon Musk’s Weekend Email Chaos

Brian Barrett: So Tom Krause is DOGE's representative at Treasury. He is in charge of overseeing these systems as part of his job that are responsible for payouts in the trillions of dollars every year, the sort of main payout systems of the federal government. There's been a lot of legal back and forth over whether he can actually access those systems directly. So that remains to be a little bit in flux. But importantly, he is also openly also the CEO of Cloud Software Group. When he took the position, Cloud Software Group confirmed that he was still CEO there, Treasury sent out a note saying, yes, he's still the CEO there. So he is, no bones about it, fully serving in both capacities. Why not do both? What we reported on more recently is that Cloud Software Group actually has tens of millions of dollars of active contracts with the US government, including over 10 million as I mentioned with the Treasury Department itself. Again, there's no indication yet that anything bad has happ ... Read full article.