A senior executive at the Social Security Administration was physically dragged from his office this week after clashing with DOGE, according to The Washington Post.

Greg Pearre, a career civil servant who led an IT team working on the agency’s data systems, was removed over his opposition to a DOGE plan to cut off immigrants from key financial services, three people told the Post.

The scheme cooked up by Elon Musk’s DOGE squad falsely lists thousands of migrants as dead in a Social Security database known as the “death master file.”

Being entered into the death database cuts a person off from crucial financial services, like the ability to receive government benefits and access a bank account or credit card.

  • @astronaut_sloth@mander.xyz
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    951 month ago

    Can’t pardon a lawsuit. Lawsuits are civil; pardons are for criminal cases. Those staffers could be bankrupted, which would be hilarious.

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      Elon will just pay the settlement for them with $DOGE or $TRUMP. Monetary punishment is not a deterrent for anyone in the current administration.

      • Basic Glitch
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        491 month ago

        Doesn’t mean people shouldn’t still sue and bleed that fuck dry like he’s bleeding everyone else.

        • @BossDj@lemm.ee
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          Keep suing it until the rest of the shit bags cut the line, turn on them, and leave them for dead. Like Giuliani

      • @leadore@lemmy.world
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        Elon will just pay the settlement for them with $DOGE or $TRUMP.

        Or he just won’t. What’s anyone going to do about it?

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          Judges have broad power to enforce civil settlements. Just look at all the shit that NY did to Trump to collect on the E Jean Carroll lawsuit. I’m not sure whether she actually collected, but I assume he sold enough $TRUMP to easy marks to pay for it all.

          • @leadore@lemmy.world
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            She hasn’t seen a dime from him and never will in the remainder of her lifetime. If she was much younger and trump hadn’t won again she might have had a chance, but her victory is basically symbolic only. I’m sure you know that the rich can just keep appealing what amounts to forever since the legal system crawls at the speed of a sloth. Legal, and especially financial consequences do not apply to oligarchs.

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              It got far enough that the judge made Trump secure a bond for the full amount in case he couldn’t pay. I assume he finally did pay up, in fact it might have forced him deeper into crypto once he realized people would pay for his shitty tokens.

      • @astronaut_sloth@mander.xyz
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        191 month ago

        Correct. For criminal acts. As Mitt Romney said, “Corporations are people, my friend.” (Yes, I know corporate personhood makes no sense, but this is the messed up world we live in.)

        • @henfredemars@infosec.pub
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          91 month ago

          I understand that. And as you noted we’re well past the point of law and making sense. 2 plus 2 is now fish because the Supreme Court said so.

          I hope we have some legal sense remaining to where what you’re saying makes sense. It would be a small confirmation law is still a thing.

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          source

          However that’s just one of many sources where you can learn more about this. Don’t know the legitimacy of this particular site.

          • @Viking_Hippie@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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            Holy shit! He’s basically given them a license for unlimited money laundering with no repercussions! 🤬

            As for The Hill, it’s generally skewed to the Right (though not as far right as the fascist GOP) on anything subjective, but usually pretty reliable otherwise.