DOGE Track

Donald Park

Analyst, age 45

Mr. Park is the cofounder of a private equity company named Ionic Partners and located in Austin, Texas. He has been involved in efforts to discover fraud in SBA loans.

Positions

Position Notes
GSA
GSA 2/XX/25 «assuming hired at GSA»
SBA
Sources
GSA? SBA 2/03/25 likely detailed Senior Advisor, DOGE ($167,603) «guessing detail start from system access»
EXIM
Source
GSA? EXIM 5/14/25 likely detailed
DOD
Source
GSA? DOD date unknown likely detailed

Systems

System Notes
CAFS
Source
Capital Access Financial System 2/03/25
The main portal at the SBA for main portal for processing loan applications and servicing loans.
read access granted by CIO
NFC Insight
Source
National Finance Center Insight 2/03/25
A business intelligence system that is one of the offerings of the National Finance Center, which handles payroll for 650,000 federal employees.
read access granted by Deputy Director
NFC Reports
Source
National Finance Center Reporting Center 2/03/25
The Reporting Center is a Web-based application page which allows managers, personnel specialists, and other employees of Federal Agencies serviced by NFC to generate Administrative Reports, Financial Reports, and Workforce Reports.
read access granted by Deputy Director

Events

Date Event
2/03/25
Source
Elias Hernandez, the associate administrator for the Office of Veterans Business Development at SBA, emails the director of the National Finance Center (NFC) asking for immediate admin access to the mainframe for “all SBA Personnel Office Identifiers (POIs)”. NFC is a shared service from USDA that handles payroll for roughly 150,000 federal employees across 170 agencies including the SBA.
2/03/25
Source
Edward Corisitine and Donald Park are granted access to the SBA’s core financial and loan systems within five hours of the CIO authorizing the request.
2/03/25
Source
Stephen Kucharski, director of the SBA’s Office of Performance Systems Management, emailed 19 colleagues with an urgent request: “Please help me and my OCIO colleagues as we mobilize to provide Edward Coristine and Donald Park Admin access to all SBA systems. This action has been cleared and we are on a very short time frame.” They were to be granted access to HR and procurement systems. He then follows up with the agency CIO.
2/03/25
Source
Within three hours of the request, Edward Coristine and Donald Park are granted “admin authority” to the mainframe and read-only access to the NFC Insight and Reporting Center applications. This gives them the ability to see sensitive information like salary, banking information and even debt for employees at the SBA (and possibly other agencies)
2/03/25
Source
Email to SBA staff announces that Edward Coristine and Donald Park were granted access to all systems including HR, contract, and payment systems.
2/16/25
Source
Donald Park sets up the @DOGE_SBA account on X as a communications channel for DOGE and a place for the general public to snitch on agency activities. He does not involve agency communications staff that would normally handle social media accounts.
5/14/25
Source
Nate Cavanaugh and Donald Park reportedly are assigned email addresses and reserved office space at the Export-Import Bank of the US.
5/16/25
Source
In a response to a FOIA request made by American Oversight, SBA provides a list of all people who have been identified as communicating on agency head Kelly Loefler’s behalf. It includes a number of people known to be DOGE and others with the title Senior Advisor who might also be doge.gov
 Akash Bobba, Aram Moghaddassi, Conor Fennessy, Donald Park, Edward Coristine, Ethan Damiano, Jordan Wick, Joshua Carter, Micaela Lopez Ballefin, Patricia Gibson, Riley Sennott