The Private Equity Hatchet Man Leading the Lost Boys of DOGE

Tom Krause is the apparent Fagin figure leading Elon Musk’s merry band of pubescent sovereignty pickpockets illegally accessing Treasury Department payment systems.

Krause gained global renown this week after The Washington Post identified him as the apparent leader of Musk 's merry band.

Citrix announced about 1,000 layoffs in fall 2022 , followed by another, deeper round of several thousand more.

Former Citrix engineer says he maintained a customer service rating above 90 percent throughout his tenure at Citrix .

He was axed along with another 12 percent of the company’s remaining employees in early 2024 , a few weeks before his first tranche of stock options were slated to vest.

Citrix is now telecommuting to Washington , D.C. , for the “Department of Government Efficiency ”.

DOGE staffers have been working “ 120-hour weeks ” with the help of $ 5,000 designer sleep pods donated by SoftBank -funded “sleep fitness” startup Eight Sleep .

A group of unions and nonprofits filed a temporary restraining order motion last week .

The Justice Department claimed that only two temporary Treasury employees had been authorized to access the systems.