Donald Park
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
Appointed:
2/XX/25 «assuming hired at GSA»
Appointed:
2/XX/25 «assuming hired at GSA»
Detailed To:
2/03/25 likely detailed from GSA Senior Advisor, DOGE $167,603 «guessing detail start from system access»
Detailed To:
2/03/25 likely detailed from GSA Senior Advisor, DOGE $167,603 «guessing detail start from system access»
| Source: | Data Reveals Details About DOGE, Government Hiring in 2025 Bloomberg, 1/09/26 |
| Source: | How Edward ‘Big Balls’ Coristine and DOGE Got Access to a Federal Payroll System That Serves the FBI Wired Magazine, 7/30/25 |
Detailed To:
5/14/25 likely detailed from GSA
Detailed To:
5/14/25 likely detailed from GSA
| Source: | Bluesky post by Marisa Kabas The Handbasket, 5/14/25 |
Detailed To:
date unknown likely detailed from GSA
Detailed To:
date unknown likely detailed from GSA
| Source: | LinkedIn profile for Donald Park LinkedIn, |
Events
2/03/25
Detailed To:
Detailed To:
| GSA? Detailed To: SBA Donald Park 2/03/25 | |
| Position Title: | Senior Advisor, DOGE |
| Salary: | $167,603 |
| Source: | Data Reveals Details About DOGE, Government Hiring in 2025 Bloomberg, 1/09/26 |
| Source: | How Edward ‘Big Balls’ Coristine and DOGE Got Access to a Federal Payroll System That Serves the FBI Wired Magazine, 7/30/25 |
| Note: | guessing detail start from system access |
:
Donald Park is granted basic access to 3 systems at SBA.
:
Donald Park is granted basic access to 3 systems at SBA.
| System Access: | CAFS: Capital Access Financial System |
| : | read, 2/03/25 Donald Park |
| Note: | The main portal at the SBA for main portal for processing loan applications and servicing loans. |
| DOGE Project: | Spending |
| System Access: | NFC Insight: National Finance Center Insight |
| : | read, 2/03/25 Donald Park |
| Note: | A business intelligence system that is one of the offerings of the National Finance Center, which handles payroll for 650,000 federal employees. |
| DOGE Project: | Anti-Personnel |
| System Access: | NFC Reports: National Finance Center Reporting Center |
| : | read, 2/03/25 Donald Park |
| Note: | 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. |
| DOGE Project: | Anti-Personnel |
Action:
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.
Action:
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.
| Person: | Donald Park, Edward Coristine |
| Source: | How Edward ‘Big Balls’ Coristine and DOGE Got Access to a Federal Payroll System That Serves the FBI Wired Magazine, 7/30/25 |
| Agency: | SBA, USDA |
| DOGE Project: | Anti-Personnel |
Action:
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.
Action:
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.
| Person: | Donald Park, Edward Coristine |
| Source: | How Edward ‘Big Balls’ Coristine and DOGE Got Access to a Federal Payroll System That Serves the FBI Wired Magazine, 7/30/25 |
| Agency: | SBA |
| DOGE Project: | Anti-Personnel, Spending |
System Access:
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)
System Access:
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)
| Person: | Donald Park, Edward Coristine |
| Source: | How Edward ‘Big Balls’ Coristine and DOGE Got Access to a Federal Payroll System That Serves the FBI Wired Magazine, 7/30/25 |
| Agency: | SBA |
| DOGE Project: | Impunity, Anti-Personnel |
Sighting:
Email to SBA staff announces that Edward Coristine and Donald Park were granted access to all systems including HR, contract, and payment systems.
Sighting:
Email to SBA staff announces that Edward Coristine and Donald Park were granted access to all systems including HR, contract, and payment systems.
| Person: | Donald Park, Edward Coristine |
| Source: | Tweet by Laura Barrón-López X.com, 2/03/25 |
| Agency: | SBA |
| DOGE Project: | Anti-Personnel, Spending |
2/16/25
Disruption:
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.
Disruption:
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.
| Person: | Donald Park |
| Source: | How DOGE Set Up a Shadow X Account for a Government Agency Wired Magazine, 8/20/25 |
| Agency: | SBA |
| DOGE Project: | Impunity |
2/XX/25
Appointed:
Donald Park starts at GSA.
Appointed:
Donald Park starts at GSA.
| Appointed: | Donald Park 2/XX/25 |
| Note: | assuming hired at GSA |
5/14/25
Detailed To:
Detailed To:
| GSA? Detailed To: EXIM Donald Park 5/14/25 | |
| Source: | Bluesky post by Marisa Kabas The Handbasket, 5/14/25 |
Sighting:
Nate Cavanaugh and Donald Park reportedly are assigned email addresses and reserved office space at the Export-Import Bank of the US.
Sighting:
Nate Cavanaugh and Donald Park reportedly are assigned email addresses and reserved office space at the Export-Import Bank of the US.
| Person: | Donald Park, Nate Cavanaugh |
| Source: | Bluesky post by Marisa Kabas The Handbasket, 5/14/25 |
| Agency: | EXIM |
5/16/25
Identification:
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
Identification:
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
| Person: | Akash Bobba, Aram Moghaddassi, Conor Fennessy, Donald Park, Edward Coristine, Ethan Damiano, Jordan Wick, Joshua Carter, Micaela Lopez Ballefin, Patricia Gibson, Riley Sennott |
| Source: | SBA Response to American Oversight FOIA Request Document Cloud, 7/15/25 |
| Agency: | SBA |