May 12, 2026
(Washington, DC) – Judicial Watch announced today that the U.S. Department of Justice confirmed in a federal court hearing that its investigation of senior officials at the U.S. African Development Foundation (USADF) remains ongoing as one of Judicial Watch’s whistleblower clients faces a retaliatory lawsuit brought by the agency’s former president.
Judicial Watch’s whistleblower clients have spent years courageously reporting corruption and misconduct at USADF, sharing information with the USAID Office of Inspector General (OIG), members of Congress, and the Department of Justice. That information has since been borne out by federal criminal charges and damning reports from the Office of Inspector General for U.S. Agency for International Development and the Government Accountability Office.
Judicial Watch has been advancing its whistleblower clients’ work through multiple vehicles, including a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) lawsuit seeking USADF records related to those allegations. (Judicial Watch Inc. v. U.S. African Development Foundation(No. 1:25-cv-02623)). In an earlier hearing in that case, the DOJ stated publicly for the first time that it and the USAID OIG were investigating possible crimes committed by senior USADF officials. Shortly thereafter, the Justice Department charged Mathieu Zahui, the USADF’s chief financial officer, based in significant part on information from Judicial Watch’s whistleblower clients. Zahui subsequently pleaded...
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