Trump takes into account criminal charges for USAID employees after Doge Wilde “abuse” has uncovered

A TOP -Trump official is considering criminal recommendations for fraud in USAID, Dailymail.com has learned.

Members of the Committee of the House from the house's foreign ministry received a briefing from Pete Marocco on Wednesday from Pete Marocco, the deputy administrator.

Marocco was in Capitol Hill to update the legislator for the ongoing review of the foreign aid of President Donald Trump.

During this meeting, Moracco informed the legislators that he is considering sending criminal recommendations to the Ministry of Justice, in which measures within USAID are exposed by Elon Musks Doge.

“Apparently there are still judicial measures that have come out so late this morning,” Rep. Keith Self, R-Texas, who was in the meeting, told Dailymail.com in an exclusive interview.

“You intend to refer to DOJ USAID officers,” he said, noticing how fraud was a criminal act. “

The Republican announced that Marocco left the possibility that both USAI workers and subsidy recipients could be recommended for crimes.

“If you recognize a direct fraud, not just bad programs, not just Ignoble programs, not just programs that do not support the national interest of the United States if they find fraud, then, absolutely,” said Self. ”

The US representative Ryan Zinke, R-Mont., Pun past demonstrators when Pete Marocco, deputy administrator at the US Agency for International Development (USA), takes part in a meeting with the congress members to discuss foreign support

People have posters while the USAI building is closed for employees after a memo was issued to the agency's advisory service to work from afar in Washington, DC, USA, on February 3, 2025

Self noticed that Marocco and the USA would not share their plans for criminal recommendations unless they had a solid “paper path”.

“You have to have a paper track to prove it,” added Self. “And I doubt that they would refer someone without very strong paper track.”

Another source in the meeting, which spoke to dailymail.com, confirmed the potential legal steps.

“Marocco informed the full committee for foreign matters of the house, Democrats and Republicans that the waste, fraud and the abuse in USAid were more serious than originally presumably,” said the source.

“He told the legislators that several transfers to the Ministry of Justice were considered for prosecution,” she continued.

“The behavior in question was due to the decentralized system of responsibility in the USAAID, in which the scholarship holders often used American taxpayers in a way that was both inappropriate and potentially illegal,” said the source.

Although Foreign Minister Marco Rubio has been commissioned for the management of USAID, Marocco is the only ongoing point for many business activities of the agency.

Doge Leader Elon Musk with Trump. Musk said USAID is a “criminal organization”

A young man wears a USAID -SORGHUM sack that is delivered by small boats to a provisional port that protects the flood on the dam to the dam that protects the Bentiu -IDP camp in Bentiu, South Sudan, on July 26, 2023

Thousands of employees were put on administrative leave after Musk found that the agency was fraud to the core.

The Committee on Foreign Affairs of the House held a hearing on the wasteful expenditure in the USA and the Foreign Ministry last month.

During the session, the Republicans condemned rapid projects such as “2 million US dollars to carry out operations in Guatemala through a trans run organization” and “ “22 million US dollars to increase tourism in Tunisia and Egypt.”

Democrats argue that USA's expenditure for the forwarding of the US goals abroad are of crucial importance, and have recently found that Musk and Trump's dealing with the agency have spread the fears before the spread of EBOLA, which were scheduled for prevention programs.

This week, the Supreme Court ruled that the USAID financing of 2 billion US dollars, which Trump solidifies, had to be thawed, thawed and delivered.