‘USADF is garbage’: Senior US foreign aid official will plead guilty to taking kickbacks, lying to feds

The U.S. African Development Foundation, a foreign aid agency that poured millions of taxpayer dollars into African initiatives over the past four decades, desperately fought the Trump administration’s efforts to dismantle the agency and audit its finances.

It’s now painfully obvious why there was so much resistance to transparency at the U.S. Agency for International Development-adjacent outfit.

Months after government watchdog Judicial Watch sued the USADF for records regarding its expenditures and in the wake of allegations that agency officials were abusing their positions and misusing funds, the USADF’s director of financial management, Mathieu Zahui, is now admitting wrongdoing.

‘The USADF Director of Financial Management’s fraudulent acts betrayed the trust of the American people.’

Zahui, an official who denied DOGE access to the agency’s financial records last year, has