NO NEED FOR MUSK, TRUMP TO COMPLY WITH JUDGE ENGELMAYER S PLAINLY UNLAWFUL RULING ON TREASURY PAYMENTS, SHOULD APPEAL ON THE GROUNDS THERE IS EVIDENCE OF A MASSIVE CRIME

 It is cyrstal clear that the judge did not hold a fair hearing as key parties were excluded and that the Treasury records point to massive fraud which a judge has a duty to investigate and stop not enable.

Judge Engelmayer is likely mired in political and financial conflicts of interests. He or his family or circle may even be among the recipients of the 100 billion of payments made by the Treasury without any classification, ID or reason.

How could it be clearer that an obscure little department in Treasury is operatng an illegal slush fund at the tax payers expense with no oversight and accountability with which should be investigated, should be closed down?

How can Judge Engelmayer overlook the evidence of a massive crime and the requirement to maintain the records?

Trump, Musk should appeal the ruling of Judge Engelmayer.

From media

The judge further ordered any person among those whom he restricted to “immediately destroy any and all copies of material downloaded from the Treasury Department’s records and systems, if any.”

A hearing on the matter is scheduled for Feb. 14.

The decision was made after 19 state attorneys general sued the Trump and Bessent after DOGE was given access to the Treasury records. DOGE is an advisory body tasked to identify ways to reduce government spending.

The attorneys general argued that Musk and DOGE, which is not an official government department, should not have access to such highly sensitive financial data. They claimed that the move violates federal law and presents a massive cybersecurity and privacy risk.

“Defendants’ new expanded access policy poses huge cybersecurity risks” that put “vast amounts of funding for the States and their residents in peril and endangers the [personally identifiable information] of States’ residents whose information is stored on the payment systems,” reads the complaint, which was filed late Feb. 7 in U.S. District Court in Manhattan.

Musk responded to the controversy Saturday, saying in a post to X:

To be clear, what the @DOGE  team and @USTreasury  have jointly agreed makes sense is the following:

- Require that all outgoing government payments have a payment categorization code, which is necessary in order to pass financial audits. This is frequently left blank, making audits almost impossible.

- All payments must also include a rationale for the payment in the comment field, which is currently left blank. Importantly, we are not yet applying ANY judgment to this rationale, but simply requiring that SOME attempt be made to explain the payment more than NOTHING!

- The DO-NOT-PAY list of entities known to be fraudulent or people who are dead or are probable fronts for terrorist organizations or do not match Congressional appropriations must actually be implemented and not ignored. Also, it can currently take up to a year to get on this list, which is far too long. This list should be updated at least weekly, if not daily.

The above super obvious and necessary changes are being implemented by existing, long-time career government employees, not anyone from @DOGE
. It is ridiculous that these changes didn’t exist already!

Yesterday, I was told that there are currently over $100B/year of entitlements payments to individuals with no SSN or even a temporary ID number. If accurate, this is extremely suspicious.

When I asked if anyone at Treasury had a rough guess for what percentage of that number is unequivocal and obvious fraud, the consensus in the room was about half, so $50B/year or $1B/week!!

This is utterly insane and must be addressed immediately.

Engelmayer agreed with the state’s argument that they “will face irreparable harm in the absence of injunctive relief.”

“That is both because of the risk that the new policy presents of the disclosure of sensitive and confidential information and the heightened risk that the systems in question will be more vulnerable than before to hacking,” Engelmayer wrote.

There was no immediate comment from the White House or Musk.

https://www.zerohedge.com/political/obama-appointed-judge-blocks-trump-admin-officials-access-sensitive-treasury-records