The managers of the San Francisco Sheriff office confirmed on Tuesday that three men claiming to work for the government’s Ministry of Efficiency who demanded information from city officials last week wore t-shirts for the Dogecoin cryptocurrency.
The Sheriff’s Office published the update Tuesday afternoonsaying The incident that occurred at the town hall of San Francisco on Friday, February 14.
Friday, the authorities of San Francisco said that they were investigating the incident at the Town Hall around noon. Men I went to several offices and the employees requested to hand over digital information “Linked to public spending and alleged fraud.”
In the update, the authorities said that “individuals had requested access to office computers and awarded a USB player to the employees to download information”. He also noted that Thee’s men “were verbally aggressive” and insulted the staff. “When men could not produce skills securities proving that they came from Doge, employees” did not comply with the requests of men “.
The new details on what the men wore came from the surveillance images of the town hall, according to the press release.
“During the examination of the surveillance images of the town hall, it seems that men wore Dogecoin t-shirts (a cryptocurrency) and non-descriptive hats. Due to the current investigation, none Other information will not be published at present “, reading the press release.
Dogecoin was a cryptocurrency developed as a joke by software engineers at the end of 2013 and is commonly called the first “piece even”.
The original report of the authorities said that the men wore hats with the pro-Trump slogan “Make America Great Again”, while the update indicated that this was not the case.
New information comes the same day as a federal judge Refused to stop musk and Doge Access to data systems in seven federal agencies and dismissing or putting their employees on leave. The California Attorney General Rob Bonta was Among 14 general prosecutors who put legal action last week Deman the authority of Musk and DOGE to access sensitive government data.
Operating under the direction of the billionaire Elon Musk, Doge was created by President Trump by an executive decree It signed shortly after its inauguration with the mission indicated to reduce federal spending.
According to publications on the social networks of the working group and musk, Doge seeks to identify federal contracts and expenses on questions that do not align with the policies of Mr. Trump, in particular DEI and foreign aid.