Baby-Faced Musk Cronies Have Taken Over Key Federal Office: Report

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Baby-Faced Musk Cronies Have Taken Over Key Federal Office: Report

A handful of new employees at the Office of Personnel Management all reportedly have past connections with billionaire

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Citing sources within the federal government,

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reports that some former employees of Neuralink, Tesla, and xAI (all companies owned by Musk) have taken on high-ranking positions at the OPM, the federal government’s version of a human resources department.

According to the outlet, the agency’s new chief of staff is slated to be Amanda Scales, a previous employee of Musk’s who worked in talent at his artificial intelligence company xAI.

WIRED’s sources also claim that the OPM’s new senior advisor to the director will be Riccardo Biasini, a two-time previous Musk employee who worked as an engineer at Tesla and later took on a director of operations role at Musk’s tunnel-building operation, The Boring Company.

Another staffer, who WIRED did not name because of his age, graduated from high school last year and will report directly to Scales. While the outlet did not identify the employee, it did note that his previous experiences included a stint as a camp counselor and, more notably, a summer position at Neuralink—Musk’s neurotechnology company that develops implantable brain-computer interfaces.

The teen is not the only young staffer on the team. A 21-year-old—who WIRED again did not identify because of his age—is reportedly slated to assume an advisor role. He comes to the OPM from Palantir, a software company founded by former Musk associate

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Thiel and Musk were both involved with

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, which Thiel also co-founded.

The new employees did not immediately reply to WIRED’s request for comment. The OPM did not immediately reply to The Daily Beast’s request for comment.

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previously announced author Scott Kupor, who has

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for Musk’s new

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, as his pick to run the OPM.

On Tuesday, the OPM issued a memo to full-time federal staffers

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that will keep them paid through September 30, if they decide to resign by February 6. A senior administration official told

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that the buyouts will ensure “all federal workers are on board with the new administration’s plan” and that they will adhere to “higher standards.”

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