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A federal employee who filed a whistleblower complaint against the Elon Musk-led Department of Government Efficiency said his car’s brake lines were cut last year just hours after Musk publicly accused him of lying.

The claim appears in a newly unsealed defamation lawsuit, filed on April 17, against the billionaire.

The whistleblower, Dan Berulis, an IT staffer with the National Labor Relations Board, filed a whistleblower complaint with Congress on April 14, 2025, after he said his department’s data was compromised by DOGE.

In his complaint, Berulis said that DOGE not only accessed the NLRB’s data without approval but began exfiltrating it as well. Berulis also said he witnessed login attempts from a Russian IP address just minutes after DOGE gained access.

DOGE, overseen by Musk, touted itself as an effort to reduce fraud, waste and abuse in the federal government. The initiative received criticism for its lack of oversight and its firing of thousands of federal employees. DOGE’s claims of cutting billions of dollars in federal spending have been mostly unverified.

Musk has not responded publicly to Berulis’ lawsuit.

A photo and a threat

The day after he filed the complaint, Berulis went public with his claims in an interview with NPR. Berulis told the outlet that while preparing to blow the whistle, a threatening note had been taped to the door of his home. He said it included a photograph, seemingly taken by drone, of him walking his dog.

On April 20, 2025,...

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