Leaked List Shows DOGE Is Lawyering Up

The Intercept has obtained a list of staffers at Elon Musk’s so-called Department of Government Efficiency, or DOGE, which includes previously unreported names of several attorneys.

The list contains individuals affiliated with DOGE who are working within the Executive Office of the President, a source told The Intercept. It includes around 30 people in total, including known members of the DOGE crew like Steve Davis, Marko Elez, Luke Farritor, and Edward Coristine. It also contains the names of at least three lawyers who have not been publicly identified as working for the initiative, which is facing a slew of lawsuits. The list does not include individuals’ titles or roles within DOGE.

Since President Donald Trump took office, DOGE has been tearing through federal agencies and operating under incredible secrecy. DOGE staffers have refused to give their full names to civil servants, and it took a month for the Trump administration to identify who is acting as DOGE’s administrator. Musk has accused reporters trying to pull back the curtain on DOGE’s inner workings of “criminal” behavior.

Here’s what we know about the attorneys linked to DOGE by the new document:

Justin Aimonetti

According to his LinkedIn profile, Aimonetti was an associate at the Dechert LLP law firm in Washington, D.C., until some point in February. Reached by phone, Aimonetti said he had “no comment” about working for DOGE.

Aimonetti graduated from University of Virginia School of Law in 2020, and during the first Trump administration spent a summer working in the Justice Department’s Office of Legal Counsel. After clerking for two federal judges, he joined Dechert in 2022.

Dechert’s website no longer has a page for Aimonetti, but an archived version from January lists him as a member of the firm’s securities and complex litigation group. While at the firm, Aimonetti represented Fox News in an ongoing defamation lawsuit brought by Hunter Biden, according to his firm bio. It also notes he did legal work for conservative groups like the Competitive Enterprise Institute, the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, and the Manhattan Institute for Policy Research.

Ashley Boizelle

Boizelle worked as a litigator at Amazon until some point in February, according to her LinkedIn profile. Reached by phone, Boizelle hung up without answering questions about her involvement with DOGE. Boizelle graduated from Yale Law School in 2008. During the first Trump administration, Boizelle was a high-ranking attorney at the Federal Communications Commission, briefly serving as the FCC’s acting general counsel in 2020.

Joshua Hanley

Until recently, Hanley worked at the law firm Williams & Connolly, according to an archived version of his bio page from January. (A LinkedIn profile for Hanley has been deactivated.) A January press release from the firm mentioned Hanley as a current employee. Like Aimonetti, Hanley recently graduated from UVA Law and briefly worked for the Trump Justice Department during law school. Hanley did not respond to The Intercept’s inquiries by phone, text message, or email.

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