Reuters reports:
A top employee of billionaire Elon Musk who is working in the US justice department previously bragged about hacking and distributing pirated software, according to archived copies of his former websites reviewed by Reuters.
Christopher Stanley, a 33-year-old engineer who has worked at Musk’s social media company X and space launch company SpaceX, is a senior adviser in the deputy attorney general’s office, according to a former justice department official and a staff directory listing reviewed by Reuters.
Stanley was assigned there while working for Musk’s department of government efficiency (DOGE) President Donald Trump set up to slash the federal bureaucracy. Musk has said no “organisation has been more transparent” than DOGE, but there’s been little public information on the responsibilities and background of its staff.
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