DOGE Worker Boasted Of Hacking, Pirating Software

Reuters reports:

A top employee of billionaire Elon Musk who is now working in the U.S. Justice Department previously bragged about hacking and distributing pirated software, according to archived copies of his former websites reviewed by Reuters.

Christopher Stanley, a 33-year-old engineer who has worked at both Musk’s social media company X and space-launch company SpaceX, is a senior advisor in the Deputy Attorney General’s office, according to a former Justice Department official and a staff directory listing reviewed by Reuters.

In a statement to Reuters, U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi said she had “full trust and confidence in Chris’s ability to help the federal government.” Stanley, the White House, SpaceX and X did not respond to requests for comment.

Read the full article. Per Reuters, Stanley deleted his websites after their inquiry and had them scrubbed from the Internet Archive, also known as the Wayback Machine.

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