There’s corruption, there’s incompetence, and then there’s whatever this was—an unholy cocktail of race-based hiring, taxpayer-funded graft, and third-rate bureaucrats treating federal law like an optional suggestion on a Denny’s kids’ menu.
The African Development Foundation (USADF), a tiny agency few Americans could name, managed to check every box on the “how to implode a federal office” bingo card. And yet, somehow, it flew under the radar for years—until someone dared to blow the whistle. Spoiler alert: he was white, he followed the law, and yes, they tried to destroy him for it.
Let’s begin with the obvious: an agency funded by your tax dollars openly refused to hire white people. No dog whistles. No coded language. Just blatant, unapologetic discrimination. Former CEO Travis Adkins allegedly said it right out loud—he wanted a leadership team made up exclusively of Black staff.
He didn’t want any white folks or veterans around. In a federal agency. Imagine the nuclear fallout if someone at the Department of Agriculture said they didn’t want to hire any Black people. But because this time the discrimination flowed in the “woke-approved” direction, no national outcry, no CNN panels, just crickets.
And when Mateo Dunne, a seasoned legal mind from the Department of Defense, dared to step in and point out that maybe—just maybe—federal agencies shouldn’t be run like college activist clubs, they slapped a “racist” label on him and ran him out of the building. Literally. Within hours of the new CEO taking over, Dunne was placed on leave, cut off from his files, and shut out of the agency he was hired to clean up. His crime? Investigating blatant fraud and discrimination. Oh, the horror.
Let’s talk about the “evidence” they used to justify removing him. A 75-page hit job that reads like a high school gossip blog, calling Dunne everything from “grimy” to “sinister” to “unwholesome.” Yes, really. Apparently, the worst thing you can do in a corrupt agency is try to enforce ethics rules.
Heaven forbid anyone question why a CFO is getting payments in his personal account from a contractor he awarded a million-dollar deal to. Or why taxpayer money was being funneled through African grantees to enrich U.S. staff and friends of the agency. But Dunne’s real sin was disrupting the status quo, not the actual misconduct.
And if you think this was just one rogue CEO, think again. His predecessor, C.D. Glin, ran the agency with the same racial litmus test and disdain for federal law. The place was a revolving door for cronies and political hacks. No ethics office. No accountability. No real oversight. Just a DEI fever dream of exclusion and enrichment wrapped in the flag of “equity.” When a white woman got laid off without severance or proper process, no one batted an eye. She was just in the way.
DOGE: African Development Foundation official who refused DOGE access to his agency’s financial records may have had a reason to keep auditors out: he steered illicit contracts to a friend who sent him secret payments, according to a law enforcement affidavit. The agency’s CEO is… pic.twitter.com/wrbbZ8M0Eb
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Even when Dunne took his case to the EEOC and presented sworn affidavits from Black staff confirming Adkins’ discriminatory hiring preferences, his complaint was dismissed. Not because the evidence wasn’t there—it was. But because this whole apparatus is designed to protect the machine, not reform it.
The kicker? The agency then tried to frame Dunne for making death threats by attributing a single-word anonymous post—“die”—to him, conveniently labeled “General Counsel.” It was so absurd it would be laughable if it wasn’t government-sanctioned character assassination. Multiple federal law enforcement agencies were sicced on him like he was a domestic terrorist, all for quoting a eulogy and asking too many questions.
“Them white motherf—ers, they don’t need to know. I don’t think I should tell them sh*t.”
Black CEO of US agency African Development Foundation hired only black people, mostly women. He fired white general counsel who uncovered kickbacks, private enrichment, and $1,000 hotel… pic.twitter.com/qFGoPobdSq
— Jared Taylor (@RealJarTaylor) May 11, 2025
And what did the Biden administration do while all this was going on? Nothing. The very agency that locked out federal auditors, retaliated against whistleblowers, and acted like the law was optional kept operating under their nose. The only reason any of this came to light was because the Department of Government Efficiency finally used U.S. Marshals to gain access and lay everyone off.
Dunne said it best: if this agency couldn’t be run correctly, then it shouldn’t exist. Period. This is what happens when DEI ideology and bureaucratic cowardice are allowed to override competence, accountability, and federal law. It’s not just a scandal—it’s a warning sign of what happens when ideology trumps integrity, and no one is brave enough to say no. Thank God someone finally did.
