A USAID employee has been charged with fraud for his actions during the pandemic.

The employee who was in charge of managing contracts has been accused of creating a fake company to get pandemic benefits for himself, a court document showed, The Daily Wire reported.

“Yusuf Akoll worked as a Senior Procurement Contract Specialist at the U.S. Agency for International Development,” the document said. “From at least in or around March 2021, and continuing through at least in or around August 2021, Akoll [made] materially false, fictitious, and fraudulent statements…that resulted in Akoll receiving two [Paycheck Protection Program] loans totaling approximately $16,666 that he was not entitled to receive.”

Prosecutors said that the employee created a fake company in November 2020 named Naagode Consulting LLC.

He then applied for a Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) loan where he said that the company needed bailout money from the coronavirus bailout package to prevent job losses.

The program only allowed companies that existed in February 202 to apply so he lied and said that the company was created in January 2020.

He claimed that the company had $40,000 in income for the year 2019, when the company did not even exist, in order to claim financial losses.

Had the government done rudimentary checking it would have seen that his established date of January 2020 meant that the company could not have possibly made any income in 2019.

But the program employed a “pay and chase” strategy where funds were paid to recipients and then fraudulent claims would be chased later, but the Biden administration quickly abandoned chasing fraudsters.

In March Elon Musk said that USAID was a massive scam operation.

“So we started looking closely at USAID because they were completely violating the president’s executive orders to suspend foreign aid, you know, what’s called foreign aid, but in our view is a lot of corruption. So what we saw there is just a tremendous amount of money being sent to non-governmental organizations. But actually, this, by the way, is, I think, one of the biggest sources of fraud in the world is government-funded, non-governmental organizations,” the DOGE head said.

“This is a gigantic fraud loophole where the government can give money to an NGO and then there are no controls over that NGO. So they’ve given billions of dollars, in fact, we estimate tens of billions of dollars to NGOs that are essentially scams. By the way. I’m trying to put a stop to that,” he said.