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From the Daily Wire: A former top aide to Kamala Harris is now under criminal investigation, accused of forging paperwork to try to take advantage of Elon Musk’s “Fork in the Road” buyout offer, The Daily Wire has learned.
The probe is likely to explore whether high-level officials — potentially including Harris herself and Lina Khan, Joe Biden’s chair of the Federal Trade Commission — conspired to embed Nathaniel Segal into a job at the FTC just before Trump’s inauguration. The placement involved a series of maneuvers that appear to have been designed to evade personnel and ethics regulations, hide that Segal was a political appointee, and prevent the Trump administration from firing him.
Segal, who worked as a Deputy Domestic Policy Advisor to Harris when she was Vice President, was installed as Deputy Chief Technology Officer at the FTC on January 18, two days before Trump’s inauguration. He was placed on the payroll on direct orders of Khan despite the fact that he was missing essential paperwork about his career history, three Trump administration officials told The Daily Wire.
But as the scheme began to unravel in mid-February, Segal tried to pull the rip-cord by doctoring a document to try to secure the Deferred Resignation Program buyout, despite its deadline having passed and Segal not having received the offer in the first place, the officials said. The buyout program gives eligible employees benefits worth as much as $200,000 in exchange for leaving the government.
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The Daily Wire detailed multiple steps that were taken before Joe Biden and Kamala Harris left office, as their administration attempted to embed Segal into the Trump administration by classifying him as a tenured government employee, which would have made it harder for the incoming administration to fire him.
On January 7, Segal “hired” by the Executive Office of the President, and given a new title, ‘Special Assistant to the President and Deputy Advisor to the Vice President.’
Eleven days later (just two days prior to Trump’s inauguration) Segal was hired by the FTC, and enrolled as a non-probationary employee, as if he was a longtime career employee transferring from another executive-branch agency, the Daily Wire reported.
When the truth came out that Segal was actually NOT a tenured employee, the FTC’s human resources department informed Segal on February 14 that he was classified as a new employee who needed to serve a one-year probationary period.
Suddenly, Segal tried to claim he had accepted the buyout offer, and wanted his money, but could provide no proof. He finally resigned on February 26 after realizing a top lawyer was looking into the matter.
Daily Wire founder Ben Shapiro discussed the case on Thursday.
🚨A former top aide to Kamala is now under criminal investigation, accused of forging paperwork to try to take advantage of @elonmusk‘s “Fork in the Road” buyout offer.@benshapiro unpacks @lukerosiak‘s investigation: pic.twitter.com/uiXsZTqkmb
— Daily Wire (@realDailyWire) March 6, 2025
This is Nathaniel Segal, Deputy Domestic Policy Advisor to VP Kamala Harris
He’s under criminal investigation for trying to benefit from @elonmusk‘s “Fork in the Road” buyout
He allegedly faked documents to try to get the ~$200k buyout despite, of course, not being eligible pic.twitter.com/shCL3MIDwl
— Luke Rosiak (@lukerosiak) March 6, 2025
Nathaniel Segal was Deputy Domestic Policy Adviser to Harris. He was put on the FTC’s payroll as as a tenured, nonpolitical civil servant on January 18 using a series of extremely suspicious moves that seemed designed to hide the fact that he was a political appointee.
— Luke Rosiak (@lukerosiak) March 6, 2025
In mid-Feb, officials discovered the scheme, putting Segal’s job at risk. The 3x Ivy League grad then allegedly falsified and backdated documents to leave with Musk’s buyout, even though he wasn’t eligible and missed the deadline.https://t.co/6c7IWuGjvl
— Luke Rosiak (@lukerosiak) March 6, 2025
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