It took many weeks for Trump II, the digital Caligula, to reveal the top person at his Department of Greedy Executives (DOGE). It's Amy Gleason, a recent private equity underwriter (PEU). The Tennessean reported:
From 2021 to 2024, Gleason worked for Nashville-based health technology startup Russell Street Ventures, a private equity firm and business incubator dedicated to improving rural health care
Amy was Chief Product Officer for Russell Street Ventures and affiliate Main Street Health,
In January Gleason became a Senior Advisor to the U.S. Digital Service, which Trump renamed DOGE via kingly decree.It is not clear when Gleason assumed her role as the official leader of DOGE nor what her duties are.
And she is not available at the moment:
....when reached Tuesday morning, Gleason said she was in Mexico and declined to comment further.PEUs are notoriously secretive. Nearly everything is a trade secret. Here's what we know about Russell Street Ventures:
Russell Street Ventures kicked off in March 2021. Founder Brad Smith's announcement letter included a link to its webpage, which has recently been deleted.
There's a good reason federal employees are being treated like a new PEU affiliate that needs massive overhaul (more tech, less people) to meet the sponsor's modeled EBITDA/ROE expectations under a new mountain of debt.
DOGE = PEU
Gleason is likely a temporary placeholder for the acting DOGE Chief role, stationed in Mexico so she wouldn't be available for the numerous lawsuits regarding Trump's PEUfare obliteration of federal departments.
How much did Amy get from Russell Street Venture's $2.7 billion sale of CareBridge to Elevance Health?
The public needs to understand there are generally layers and layers of equity owners, intent on making massive returns, frequently from selling to Uncle Sam..
Vice President J.D. Vance's Narya Capital has an affiliate that does real estate valuations for taxing entities. Narya Capital: Addressing America's Most Acute Problems, maybe, maybe not.
DOGE is the brainchild of the TechGod & PEU Legend political sponsorship class and Amy Gleason's former boss Brad Smith is a key cog in the rebuilding after "the breaking." Recall "the breaking" can last years and it can harm many, many people.
It's heartbreaking enough what "the breaking" does to employees. It's tragic what it does to customers. Greedy executives in business and government don't care about either.
Politicians Red and Blue love PEU and increasingly, more are one. TechGods joined the political PEUarty and stand to gain big from steering Uncle Sam's tech modernization from the inside, with no ethical controls or constraints.
Fire up the "trillion $ savings" spending machine! Full bore!!!
Flash back: One need only remember healthcare reform under Obama was headed by a PEU. The Federal Trade Commission received public comment last year from people impacted by healthcare buyouts (most were PEU sponsored). Many testified to the harm inflicted on them by PEUs with former Medicare Chiefs in their executive ranks.
Flash forward: These PEUs have gotten and will get more tax breaks as their personal wealth continues to skyrocket. That unfortunately is bipartisanship.
