Trump SBA initiates audit of all government contracts awarded in last 10 years

After discovering a huge bribery scandal at the United States Agency for International Development, Small Business Administration (SBA) requests a full review of all government contract employees who have practiced the authority to grant grants as part of the agency’s business development program over the past fifteen years.

In a letter obtained by Fox News Digital, SBA KELY LOEFFRER, director of the US Agency for International Development, said “a cursed reflection of the faulty failure of control and accountability.” She also said that fraud was “not an isolated accident.”

In response, Lovler issued instructions to the assistant director Try Benny, who supervises the government contracts granted by SBA, to “decisively act” to spend any possible similar violations in the agency.

Levler Pennslever has ordered a full -scale review of the agency’s grant officers until 2010.

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“The role of contracting employees with the federal government is not a ceremonial or a trader himself; it is a position on the enormous authority and credit responsibility,” Lovler said. “The contract must be transparent and based on merit, not personal gains.”

This comes after an agency in charge of the Civil Foreign Aid Department was dismantled mainly by the waste, fraud and abuse that was conducted during the era of Elon Musk and President Donald Trump. This step was met with huge protests of Democrats who claimed that the US Agency for International Development would be turned and harms beneficiaries around the world.

Despite the allegations related to the quality of the agency agency, it was recently discovered that an influential contractor at the United States Agency for International Development, Roderick Watson, was able to implement a long -term long -term bribery scheme dating back to 2013.

Watson, 57, acknowledged that he was guilty of a “bribery of public employee”, according to a press statement of the Ministry of Justice.

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The demonstrators hold banners and the Maraoko’s vice official at the USAID Agency (USAID), a meeting with members of congress to discuss external assistance, attends the Capitol Hill in Washington, DC, March 5, 2025. (Reuters/Kent Nishimura)

According to Doj, Watson sold his influence starting in 2013, where contractors Walter Barnes, the owner of Vistant, and Darryl Britt, Apprio owner, directed the rewards through the Paul Young contractor to hide their paths.

A press release of the Ministry of Justice said that Brett and Parles “regularly transferred bribes to Watson, including cash, laptops and thousands of dollars in tickets to a wing in the American Professional League game, a wedding ceremony for the country club, and a flow of residential mortgages, cell phones, and jobs, often merged through paralyzed transfers, And destroy and merge it, bills.

The statement said that Watson claims that he received bribes “estimated at approximately more than a million dollars as part of the plan.”

Vistant was granted in November 2023, as part of a joint venture, a contract of $ 800 million with one of the concentration of this contract is to address a “variety of issues that affect the radical causes of irregular migration from Central America to the United States”, a case that President Joe Biden assigned at the time Kamala Harris with its care.

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A worker removes the American Agency for International Development on its headquarters on February 07, 2025 in Washington, DC (Kayla Bartkowski/Getty Images)

After several days, this contract was canceled after the US Agency for International Development published a notification that it was excluded from the government contract due to “evidence of the behavior of lack of honesty or commercial integrity.”

Then the joint project successfully sued the government because of its placement on this exclusion list, and the contract was re -evaluated and was granted an amount of $ 10,000 in August 2024.

In her message, Lovler said that the American International Development Agency scandal “represents a collapse in the same guarantees that are supposed to protect US taxpayers dollars and ensure fair access to legitimate small companies.”

The Biden Administration has criticized a $ 800 million contract to Vistant, although the works described by the US International Development Agency lacking “honesty and integrity”.

“The fact that the federal official was able to work as a broad -scale fraud that talks about a failure in internal controls and a collapse in the contract environment that requires immediate correction,” said Lovler.

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She said that SBA plays an “important role” in the federal contract and “will not stand by them while violations are committed at the expense of taxpayers and small companies due.”

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Levler said that the agency audit will start with high -dollar competition contracts limited in the Business Development Program 8 (A) in SBA. The results will be referred to the American Inspector Office (OIG) and Doj.

Levler said that any officials or companies are in violation of the ethical standards of SBA or who have committed criminal misconduct will be referred to the competent authorities and SBA will help the Ministry of Justice to recover the wrong money.

“We will not allow the audience to be calm quietly through the rear door deals and an unspecified appreciation,” said Lovler.

“We owe small companies in America to get this correctly,” I went. “Your office has power, and now the mandate, to act decisively.”