Under President Biden, the USAID reportedly awarded $800,000 to a known fraudster, further highlighting the need for financial accountability and efficiency in Washington.

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The Daily Wire revealed the results of its investigation on Tuesday:

President Joe Biden’s USAID awarded an $800 million contract to a business operating out of a Virginia home even after it formally ruled that its key manager lacked “honesty or integrity” — a reference to the fact that, according to a May 12 guilty plea, he had secured USAID contracts through bribery for a decade.

The contract was for addressing “issues affecting the root causes of irregular migration from Central America to the United States” — the work that Biden assigned to Vice President Kamala Harris, but which she never appeared to address, a Daily Wire investigation found.

The Department of Justice announced Friday that Walter Barnes III, the founder of government contractor Vistant (previously known as PM Consulting Group, or PMCG) and Roderick Watson, a USAID contracting official, pleaded guilty to a bribery scheme in which Barnes and two others conspired to pay Watson $1 million in exchange for $544 million in contracts.

What has not been reported is that the Biden administration continued to steer contracts to Vistant/PMCG even after it knew of the massive corruption: the migration contract, even larger than the $544 million in the indictment, and others that are still active.

Vistant reportedly relied on a “DEI policy … which lets the government award contracts with no or limited competition when the recipient is a racial minority or a small business.” This policy, known as 8(a) contracting, allowed Barnes to use his status as a black man to secure contracts. This is also why Vistant partnered with CollaborateUp on the $800 million contract,  small consultancy run out of a suburban home in Falls Church, VA. CollaborateUp benefitted from 8(a) contracting on account of being a “small business.”

CollaborateUp also recently added Mark A. Green to its payroll as a “senior advisor,” according to the Wire. Green is a former Republican congressman who ran USAID during President Trump’s first term in office.

This fraud further highlights the need for initiatives like DOGE. Hundreds of millions were wasted by our government in recent years as taxpayer money was handed off to fraudsters like the ones in this article. Let’s pray for greater financial ability so that our money is never wasted like this again!

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(Excerpt from The Daily Wire. Photo Credit: U.S. Department of Agriculture)