🧵 The truth about USAID and their number one contractor Chemonics International
Chemonics International is one of the biggest U.S. government contractors in “global development” raking in billions from USAID.
But behind the glossy reports are fraud allegations, mismanagement, and ties to shady dealings.
What is Chemonics?
A Washington, D.C.-based development firm operating in 100+ countries. Its focus? Health, agriculture, governance, economic development. But its real business? Winning USAID contracts. In 2019 alone, it received $1.5 billion in USAID funding aka taxpayer’s money. chemonics.com
It gets virtually all of its money primarily from USAID, but also the UK’s Foreign Office and the World Bank.
Interesting bedfellows right?
One of its biggest contracts was $9.5 billion of taxpayer money for a Global Health Supply Chain project (2016–2023). The catch? That project became a disaster.
“We had procurement analysts who were just making it up,” one former employee said. “We had trash data, and then we had people who didn’t understand how humanitarian aid cargo actually worked. It was a disaster waiting to happen.”
A Brief History
•Founded in 1975 as a subsidiary of Erly Industries.
•Became employee-owned in 2011 via an ESOP.
•In the ‘90s, helped privatize Ukraine’s agriculture sector.
•Took on post-conflict reconstruction in Afghanistan & Haiti—both riddled with cost overruns, subpar results and scandals.
Chemonics is 100% employee-owned, though its international staff weren’t included until recently. The transition was facilitated by billionaire Eijk Van Otterloo, co-founder of investment firm GMO.
Here is a sampling of the Current Board at Chenomics that has suddenly disappeared from their website.🤔
Jamey Butcher (CEO/President) – Oversees global operations.
Archie Jones – Harvard Business School professor, private equity guy.
Gunjan Bhow – Ex-Disney & Amazon exec.
Phyllis Caldwell - Impact Investor & Former banker
A billion-dollar development contractor wouldn’t be complete without scandals.
1. Fraudulent Billing (2024)
Settled a $3.1 million case over reckless oversight.
•A subcontractor, Zenith Carex, overbilled USAID in Nigeria.
•Classic “we had no idea” defense from Chemonics.
2. Global Health Supply Chain Failures ($9.5B Project)
•Massive delays almost ran out HIV drugs in multiple countries.
•2021 audit: “poorly implemented controls.”
•A senior director lived like a king far beyond their salary.
•Reportedly sourced products from Chinese entities linked to Uyghur labor camps.
•The company, of course, denied knowledge.
“The report by the Center for Advanced Defense Studies, or C4ADS, says that even two U.S. government agencies — the U.S. Food and Drug Administration and U.S. Agency for International Development via its contractor Chemonics International — have not cut ties with East Turkistan (Xinjiang)-linked drug suppliers.”
Chemonics is part of a group known as “Beltway Bandits”, firms that keep U.S. foreign aid money cycling through D.C. contractors instead of actually helping local economies.
The story of USAID and Chemonics is not just about waste or mismanagement, it’s about a systemic racket that funnels billions of taxpayer dollars into private pockets under the guise of “foreign aid.” Haiti’s post-earthquake reconstruction laid bare the entire playbook of disaster capitalism:
•USAID awarded Chemonics multi-billion-dollar contracts, despite a track record of failures, delays, and outright fraud.
•Less than 1% of USAID funds went to Haitian-led organizations, while Chemonics and other Beltway contractors kept the lion’s share.
•From rigged elections to botched aid distribution, USAID and its contractors shaped Haiti’s reconstruction in a way that benefited foreign elites while leaving Haitians in deeper crisis.
The Clintons have played a major role in this racket worldwide.
And this isn’t just Haiti. From Afghanistan to Ukraine, the USAID-Chemonics machine operates the same way, exploiting crises to justify endless contracts while delivering little to nothing. The U.S. foreign aid system isn’t about “helping”, it’s about maintaining control, dependency, and corporate profit.
The next time a disaster strikes and some USG agencies is tasked with swooping in with billions, ask where that money is really going—because history tells us it’s not going to the people who need it most.
Your tax dollars at work.
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THREAD 🧵: The Invisible Battlefield of Social Media, how Bots Quietly Own the Narrative
Social media is a warzone, behind the hood there are armies of bots, algorithmic black boxes, and deliberate astroturf campaigns controlling what seems “organic.”
The operative term here is astroturfing: the creation of fake grassroots movements. Bots amplify selected narratives under the guise of popular consensus, drowning out dissent. The public never sees the puppet strings.
Magistrate Judge Teresa Stokes in North Carolina isn’t just on the bench, she’s also listed as co-owner of Pinnacle Recovery Services, a mental health and addiction treatment outfit.
So when defendants get diverted from jail into “treatment,” guess whose business stands to gain?
Seriously, this is huge scandal. This lady let a repeated violent criminal off the hook over a dozen times, released to a facility she co-owns and undoubtedly profits from. He then commits an unspeakable crime that should have never been allowed to happen.
So the calls for RFK Jr. to resign didn’t come out of nowhere. A leaked April 3 “BIO Vaccine Policy Steering Committee” memo shows industry insiders openly plotting to “go to The Hill and lobby that it is time for RFK Jr. to go.”
The memo circulated under BIO, the biotech industry’s lobbying arm, names Novavax, Merck, and allies like AEI, Sen. Bill Cassidy, and even Dr. Oz as part of a coalition to rebrand vaccines as “national security” and box Kennedy out of FDA/CDC policy.
It wasn’t just rhetoric. The memo earmarks half of BIO’s $4M reserve for a new campaign: “Why We Vaccinate.” That campaign launched in DC weeks later, exactly as the memo said. The ad blitz was meant to soften public opinion while Congress got leaned on.
For several decades the U.S. government secretly used its own citizens as human lab rats.
The victims? Cancer patients, children, prisoners, the poor.
The experiments? Injecting plutonium, blasting bodies with radiation, feeding kids radioactive cereal.
Here’s a look…
1945. Oak Ridge, TN. - Patient Zero
Ebb Cade, a Black construction worker, is hospitalized after a car crash.
Instead of setting his broken bones, Army doctors inject him with plutonium.
Then they yank his teeth and bone for study.
The experimenters delayed treatment to harvest radioactive samples from his body but he caught on and fled before they could do more.
You know that new “universal vaccine” that RFK Jr. was just touting?
It’s called BPL-1357 – a beta-propiolactone inactivated, whole-virus “universal influenza” vaccine developed in-house at NIH’s NIAID.
You’ll never guess who is funding its production?
Bill Gates.
BPL-1357 contains four different low-pathogenicity avian influenza A viruses:
•H1N9
•H3N8
•H5N1
•H7N3
Each has a different hemagglutinin (HA) & neuraminidase (NA) subtype.
The Data and Safety Monitoring Board Report on the BPL-1357 Phase 1 Trial:
The National Toxicology Program lists BPL as “reasonably anticipated to be a human carcinogen” citing solid evidence of tumors in multiple rodent species via different exposure routes (dermal, oral, injection).