USAID whistleblower Mark Moyar said when he raised concerns about fraud, he was fired
‘Reporting corruption can get you in a lot of trouble’
“I reported one of my subordinates for criminal conflict of interest. The first discouraging sign was I was told, well, you know, that’s nice you want to do that. Most people here don’t want to report corruption. They didn’t tell me why later figured out it’s because you get in a lot of trouble.
So I was accused of publishing classified information in something I’d written two years earlier, which had never been subjected to any prior question. And so they ultimately use that to fire me. Now the people who were engaged in the corruption managed to hold on to their jobs. And so there’s a culture of corruption that says if you are going to criticize anything corrupt, we’re going to come after you and we’re going to use the tools that are supposed to be used to go after criminals to come after you.
So they ended up firing me based on this bogus accusation”