Marko Elez
Marko Elez first appeared as the only DOGE member who was authorized to access confidential systems at the Bureau of Fiscal Services within the Treasury Department, a development which was swiftly blocked for a while by lawsuits. During that time, he also became the only DOGE member to resign his position, when various past racist tweets of his were discovered by the Wall Street Journal. He was quickly reinstated by Elon Musk with the support of J.D. Vance, who saw nothing wrong with his speech; indeed, since then DOGE has added several other members linked to racist and extremist content online. Upon rejoning DOGE, Marko Elez was placed with Aram Moghaddassi on a team inside of the Department of Labor, and the two are frequently sent on reimburable details to other agencies like SSA or DHS.
Likely aliases: SSA-07
Positions
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1/21-2/06 |
appointed Special Advisor (IT&M), Office of the Chief of Staff (NTE 2025-05-25, GS-11/01, $84,601 (for 4 months)) «Abruptly resigned when past racist tweets were reported. I think the pay here is to the NTE date, since his later detail to SSA from DOL is reimbursed at $71k a quarter» docs: onboard (Resigned) |
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c.2/14- |
appointed «no public info, but I assume this is a paid position because his detail to SSA is reimbursed» |
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2/18- |
[as SSA-07] detail (reimbursed $71,000 per quarter) docs: MOU, onboard |
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3/05- |
likely detailed «date/source in court filing» court doc |
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3/05- |
internal xfer «granted access to CMS system on date» court doc |
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| internal xfer «linked to DHS by NYT, no public info» NYT | |
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Systems
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ASAP
1/28-
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Automated Standard Access For Payments
source-code access A payment system that allows recipients to draw down funds from an established bank account for that recipient. (Treasury) court doc |
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PAM DB
1/28-2/06
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Payment Automation Manager DB
source-code access granted by Deputy Director The U.S. government uses the Payment Automation Manager (PAM) to pay all bills, except payments in foreign currency. PAM processed over 1.2 billion payments in FY 2024, valued at over 4.7 trillion dollars. (Treasury) court doc |
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SPS
1/28-2/06
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Secure Payment System
source-code access granted by Deputy Director Used by federal government agencies to securely create, certify, and submit payments to the Fiscal Service. (Treasury) court doc |
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PAM DB
2/03-2/06
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Payment Automation Manager DB
read-write access The U.S. government uses the Payment Automation Manager (PAM) to pay all bills, except payments in foreign currency. PAM processed over 1.2 billion payments in FY 2024, valued at over 4.7 trillion dollars. (Treasury) court doc |
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PAM FS
2/03-2/06
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Payment Automation Manager File System
read access Where payment files are transmitted from initiating agencies before they are certified and processed by Treasury (Treasury) court doc |
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HIGLAS
2/05-
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Healthcare Integrated General Ledger Accounting System
read access granted by CIO A single, integrated dual-entry accounting system that centralizes accounting for CMS programs, including Medicare and Medicaid. (CMS) court doc |
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SPS
2/05-2/06
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Secure Payment System
read-write access granted by Deputy Director Used by federal government agencies to securely create, certify, and submit payments to the Fiscal Service. (Treasury) court doc |
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DRA
2/25-
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Directory Resource Administrator
read access (never accessed) granted by Deputy Director A tool for managing access control to systems built on top of ActiveDirectory (DOL) court doc |
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ePACS
2/25-
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Enterprise Physical Access Control System
read access granted by Deputy Director Used to control physical access to the DOL HQ and several other buildings. Could track when employees enter and leave (DOL) court doc |
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USAccess
2/25-
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USAccess
read access granted by Deputy Director Shared service access provider system (DOL) court doc |
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CALM
3/05-
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CMS Acquisition Lifecycle Management System
read access granted by CIO System for tracking CMS acquisitions, contracts, milestones and audits. (CMS) court doc |
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IDR
3/05-
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Integrated Data Repository
read access granted by CIO A data warehouse that receives all Medicare claims after they have been approved for payment (CMS) court doc |
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NDNH
3/06-4/18
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National Directory of New Hires
read access granted by CTO A system for tracking wages and new hires that’s used for child support location (HHS) court doc |
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SAVE
3/15-
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Systematic Alien Verification for Entitlements
unknown access An online service for agencies to verify immigration status and naturalized/acquired U.S. citizenship of applicants seeking benefits or licenses. (USCIS) court doc |
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MBR
3/17-
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Master Beneficiary Record
read access granted by CIO Mike Russo A large record of all individuals elgible to receive social security benefits (SSA) court doc |
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NUMIDENT
3/17-
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NUMIDENT files
read access granted by CIO Mike Russo NUMIDENT files that have been extracted from SSA systems, these contain SSNs for everybody (SSA) court doc |
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SSR
3/17-
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Supplemental Security Record master records
read access granted by CIO Mike Russo A master record used by the SSA for the Supplemental Security Income (SSI) program (SSA) court doc |
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UI Data
3/21-
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Unemployment Insurance Data and Related Records
read access granted by CIO Thomas Shedd Unemployment insurance claims data from states’ unemployment insurance agencies. This was explicitly transferred from the Inspector General’s office at DOL following a 2025-03-20 executive order (DOL) court doc |
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REO
4/18-
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Reentry Employment Opportunities
unknown access System which tracks funding provided for justice-involved youth and young adults and adults who were formerly incarcerated. (DOL) Wired |
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ECAS
4/21-
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Executive Office for Immigration Review's Court and Appeals System
unknown access A system used by DOJ for tracking the status of immigration cases (DOJ) Wash. Post |
Events
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1/28
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Access:
Marko Elez is provided with a laptop from Treasury with with copies of the source code for PAM, SPS, and ASAP in a separate, secure coding environment known as a "secure code repository" or "sandbox."
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2/05
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2/11
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Access:
A legal affadavit from a Treausry employee states Marko Elez was accidentally given edit access to BFS systems but did not use it
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2/20
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2/20
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Onboard:
John York, a senior counselor to Bessent, wrote in a sworn statement that Ryan Wunderly would take over Marko Elez's work at the BFS
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3/05
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Access:
Aram Moghaddassi and Marko Elez are granted read access to the Integrated Data Repository (IDR), a data warehouse of all Medicare claims
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3/05
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3/05
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Directory:
The Intercept receives a list of 30 DOGE staffers working within the Executive Office of the President (EOP), including 4 lawyers previously not listed
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3/05
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Onboard:
Business Insider reports Marko Elez, Aram Moghaddassi, and Miles B. Collins are new DOGE arrivals at Department of Labor
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3/12
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3/13
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Directory:
Wired reports that 10 DOGE staffers are visible in the Microsoft Teams directory of all employees at SSA
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3/13
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Directory:
As later reported in a declaration in AFL-CIO et al. vs. Department of Labor, HHS employee Mark Samburg finds DOGE staff at the agency listed in an online directory as Executive Engineers (and Rachel Riley as a Senior Advisor)
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3/19
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Report:
Marko Elez affirms he has completed his mandatory privacy training at the Department of Labor. This would be required before any system access.
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3/29
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3/29
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Legal:
In a legal filing, the DOJ identifies 4 DOGE staffers - Edward Coristine, Marko Elez, Luke Farritor and Amy Gleason - as present at CMS. It omits the names of several other staffers with access to the CALM system.
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4/11
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4/16
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