John Bickley
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Because they didn't do like $800,000 worth of work?
So the grant is... So Gannium did have a grant?
How did you know the owners?
Okay, so he was actually an American.
Okay.
Did you know him prior to working at ADF?
Zeyu has now admitted that Gokor didn't do any work but kept more than $100,000 and paid him $12,000 in kickbacks.
The rest was used to pay bills for the agency, making it look like more money was going to Africa instead of bureaucratic overhead.
That was just one troubling example I found, and others involved officials beyond just ZEHU.
Just really brazen levels of fraud, as you've outlined.
So USAID has already been abolished, as we've reported.
I'd imagine that this agency is next to go.
You'd think.
Hours after ZEHU's plea deal was announced, Senator Mike Lee introduced an amendment to abolish the African Development Foundation.
But it failed.
Here's Lee.
Republicans acting alone could have, would have, and should have
defunded this today.
But instead, what was the result?
Well, it was defeated.