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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
Alex Woodward

Judge blocks Elon Musk’s DOGE team from fraud ‘fishing expedition’ at Social Security

A federal judge has temporarily blocked Elon Musk and his so-called Department of Government Efficiency from their “fishing expedition” in search of a “fraud epidemic” based on “little more than suspicion” inside the Social Security Administration.

A temporary restraining order from District Judge Ellen Lipton Hollander prevents the world’s wealthiest man and his team of 10 at Social Security — which Musk has baselessly labeled a “Ponzi scheme” and accused of handing out tens of billions of dollars in retirement benefits to dead people — from “unfettered” access to personal information for millions of Americans.

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