USAID Inspector General was investigating Starlink

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Anonymous wrote:Why would an agency IG investigate a company? That seems highly inappropriate and beyond the IG's scope. Good thing they are getting shut down.

He had $1 million USAID contracts so the agency’s OIG was investigating issues with those Starlink contracts. That is certainly a proper function of an Inspector General. It’s exactly what an OIG does. Elon was just projecting this whole time…

$1M? That's pixie dust compared to their overall contracts. This doesn't make sense.

Yeah. But if Musk was violating sanction that would put the rest of his government handouts for SpaceX and Tesla at risk. His “success” is built on usg subsidies.

Not to mention starlink would tank if it’s true that he manipulated it. International contracts will probably start canceling.

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Anonymous wrote:Why would an agency IG investigate a company? That seems highly inappropriate and beyond the IG's scope. Good thing they are getting shut down.

He had $1 million USAID contracts so the agency’s OIG was investigating issues with those Starlink contracts. That is certainly a proper function of an Inspector General. It’s exactly what an OIG does. Elon was just projecting this whole time…

$1M? That's pixie dust compared to their overall contracts. This doesn't make sense.

Yeah. But if Musk was violating sanction that would put the rest of his government handouts for SpaceX and Tesla at risk. His “success” is built on usg subsidies.

Bingo! My bet is he was feeding Ukrainian info to Russia through Starlink terminals and/or violating U.S. sanctions against Russia. This goes deep! Think critically. Why else would Elon Musk care about USAID?

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Anonymous wrote:Why would an agency IG investigate a company? That seems highly inappropriate and beyond the IG's scope. Good thing they are getting shut down.

IGs investigate contractors all the time.

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Anonymous wrote:I heard that a few days ago. I was wondering why investigating starlink would fall to USAID.

Investigating for what? It sounds like they were debating whether or not to continue the relationship. 5K Starlinks in Ukraine doesn't even affect the bottom line.

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Anonymous wrote:The IG was investigating how the Russians were getting their hands on Starlink, while the USAID contract was to provide Starlink only to the Ukrainians. Were corrupt Ukrainians selling the devices? Was Starlink itself violating Russian sanctions?

Lots of unanswered questions that Musk wants to quash.

Well I think we now know the answer!

If Ukraine was selling Starlink units to Russia in a corrupt manner, how is that Musk's fault? It's actually the government's fault because they lost track of the units they purchased.

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Anonymous wrote:The IG was investigating how the Russians were getting their hands on Starlink, while the USAID contract was to provide Starlink only to the Ukrainians. Were corrupt Ukrainians selling the devices? Was Starlink itself violating Russian sanctions?

Lots of unanswered questions that Musk wants to quash.

Well I think we now know the answer!

If Ukraine was selling Starlink units to Russia in a corrupt manner, how is that Musk's fault? It's actually the government's fault because they lost track of the units they purchased.

Which is how you know that’s not what was happening. Musk shutting down the investigation only makes sense if Musk was the one violating sanctions. Ergo he was.

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Anonymous wrote:The IG was investigating how the Russians were getting their hands on Starlink, while the USAID contract was to provide Starlink only to the Ukrainians. Were corrupt Ukrainians selling the devices? Was Starlink itself violating Russian sanctions?

Lots of unanswered questions that Musk wants to quash.

Russians didn't need Ukrainians to get Starlink terminals, just as Ramzan Kadyrov didn't need Ukraine to get a Cybertruck.

Musk fully has the means of finding out how they are getting there but didn't want to miss out on sales to Russia.

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Are there NO conflict of interest rules anymore?

An IG at USAID?

That should not be a optional position.

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Anonymous wrote:Why would an agency IG investigate a company? That seems highly inappropriate and beyond the IG's scope. Good thing they are getting shut down.

IGs investigate contractors all the time.

You must be a troll.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Why would an agency IG investigate a company? That seems highly inappropriate and beyond the IG's scope. Good thing they are getting shut down.

He had $1 million USAID contracts so the agency’s OIG was investigating issues with those Starlink contracts. That is certainly a proper function of an Inspector General. It’s exactly what an OIG does. Elon was just projecting this whole time…

$1M? That's pixie dust compared to their overall contracts. This doesn't make sense.

Yeah. But if Musk was violating sanction that would put the rest of his government handouts for SpaceX and Tesla at risk. His “success” is built on usg subsidies.

He basically owns our space program. I'd rather have a space program, even if it's owned by Elon, than have no program and be overtaken by China and Russia. Our dumb a$$es allowed the government to defund space, so now we get what we get. I don't see the point in harassing him over a $1M contract. He's the only reason we have space defense.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

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Anonymous wrote:The IG was investigating how the Russians were getting their hands on Starlink, while the USAID contract was to provide Starlink only to the Ukrainians. Were corrupt Ukrainians selling the devices? Was Starlink itself violating Russian sanctions?

Lots of unanswered questions that Musk wants to quash.

Well I think we now know the answer!

If Ukraine was selling Starlink units to Russia in a corrupt manner, how is that Musk's fault? It's actually the government's fault because they lost track of the units they purchased.

Which is how you know that’s not what was happening. Musk shutting down the investigation only makes sense if Musk was the one violating sanctions. Ergo he was.

That's the ONLY plausible reason to you? Hmm. I can think of plenty of plausible reasons.

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Anonymous wrote:The IG was investigating how the Russians were getting their hands on Starlink, while the USAID contract was to provide Starlink only to the Ukrainians. Were corrupt Ukrainians selling the devices? Was Starlink itself violating Russian sanctions?

Lots of unanswered questions that Musk wants to quash.

Russians didn't need Ukrainians to get Starlink terminals, just as Ramzan Kadyrov didn't need Ukraine to get a Cybertruck.

Musk fully has the means of finding out how they are getting there but didn't want to miss out on sales to Russia.

And, now everyone can have all r data from Musk and staffers who don’t have proper security clearance and have made no oath to The US Constitution.

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Why would USAID be investigating Starlink?

Citation, please.

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If the end result of this is…. Elon musk doing something criminal and standing in front of. A judge for his sentence….
I will feel somewhat bad for him that he ever thought he could live at this level.

He needs to go back to business where he was playing Diablo 2 or whatever and getting his employees pregnant.

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I wonder if Starlink also explains why they went on to invade NOAA right after USAID.

Could NOAA making satellite data publicly available for free be bothering Starlink?