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category: "Law Enforcement & Legal"
aliases:
- "David Christopher Maland"
- "Chris Maland"
tags:
- Person
- BorderPatrol
- Zizians
- StateDepartment
- Vermont
summary: "Air Force security specialist, State Department K9 handler and Border Patrol agent at Newport, Vermont, killed on January 20, 2025 at a traffic stop of two people linked to the Zizians."
born: 1980-02-19
died: 2025-01-20
location: "Newport, Vermont"
relations:
- type: employed_by
with: "[[U.S. Air Force]]"
role: "Security Forces journeyman"
start: 1999-06
fn: 1
- type: employed_by
with: "[[U.S. Department of State]]"
role: "K9 handler"
fn: 1
- type: employed_by
with: "[[U.S. Border Patrol]]"
role: "agent, Texas, then Newport, Vermont, from 2019"
end: 2025-01-20
fn: 1
created: 2026-09-22
updated: 2026-09-23
---
David Christopher Maland was born in [[Blue Earth]], Minnesota, on February 19, 1980, graduated from [[Fairmont High School]] in 1999 and enlisted in the [[U.S. Air Force]] that June, serving six years as a Security Forces journeyman; his decorations included the Air Force Achievement Medal and the Global War on Terrorism Medal. According to his family's obituary, he was at the [[Pentagon]] "as active security on 9/11." He then worked for the [[U.S. Department of State]] as a K9 handler "serving executives in the U.S. Government," took a B.A. from [[Metropolitan State University]] in 2012, and after the [[Border Patrol Academy]] served two years as an agent in Texas. In 2019 he transferred to [[Newport, Vermont]], as a Border Patrol agent, K9 agent and member of the Mobile Response Team.[^1]
### Death
Maland was killed on January 20, 2025, in a shootout at a traffic stop on [[Interstate 91]] in [[Coventry, Vermont]], of a car driven by [[Teresa Youngblut]] with [[Felix Bauckholt]] as passenger; Bauckholt was killed and Youngblut wounded. Law enforcement linked both to [[The Zizians]]. Youngblut was charged in federal court with his murder, pleaded not guilty and was held without bail, and prosecutors filed notice that they would seek the death penalty. In August 2026 her lawyers argued that the authorities had determined before the stop that Bauckholt held a valid visa, contrary to the stop's stated immigration basis; the prosecutor, [[Matthew Lasher]], wrote that their source "indicated only" that a visa had been issued.[^2] He was buried on February 22, 2025 at [[Fort Snelling National Cemetery]] with military honors.[^1]
### Footnotes
[^1]: Morris Nilsen Funeral Chapel, "David Christopher Maland," obituary, February 2025. https://www.morrisnilsen.com/obituary/david-christopher-maland/
[^2]: "Cell phone data fight in federal murder case." *Valley News,* August 4, 2026. https://vnews.com/2026/08/04/border-patrol-agent-murder-trial/

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- Facebook
- EffectiveAltruism
- OpenPhilanthropy
- Anthropic
- DemocraticDonor
summary: "Dustin Moskovitz is a cofounder of Facebook and the software firm Asana who, with his wife Cari Tuna, became the largest sustained funder of effective altruism through Open Philanthropy and one of the largest Democratic political donors, a political mirror image of his fellow Facebook beneficiary Peter Thiel."
summary: "Facebook and Asana cofounder whose Good Ventures foundation funds Open Philanthropy, the chief backer of AI-safety policy, research and journalism; an early Anthropic investor and a leading Democratic donor."
born: 1984-05-22
location: "San Francisco, California"
relations:
- type: funded
with: "[[Future Forward]]"
start: 2020
role: "46.89 million dollars in 2019-2020, 3.3 million in 2021-2022, 50 million in 2023-2024"
fn: 16
- type: funded
with: "[[LCV Victory Fund]]"
start: 2016
role: "5 million dollars, with Cari Tuna"
fn: 15
- type: funded
with: "[[For Our Future PAC]]"
start: 2016
role: "5 million dollars, with Cari Tuna"
fn: 15
created: 2026-06-19
updated: 2026-06-19
updated: 2026-09-23
---
Dustin Moskovitz (born May 22, 1984) is an American technology entrepreneur who cofounded [[Facebook]] with [[Mark Zuckerberg]] in 2004 and later cofounded the workplace-software company [[Asana]]. With his wife [[Cari Tuna]] he became the largest sustained funder of the [[Effective Altruism]] movement through [[Open Philanthropy]] and one of the largest Democratic political donors in the United States. His career traces the same Facebook fortune that made [[Peter Thiel]], the company's first outside investor, a billionaire, and his philanthropy and politics run in the opposite direction from Thiel's.[^1][^2]
Dustin Moskovitz (born May 22, 1984) cofounded [[Facebook]] with [[Mark Zuckerberg]], his roommate at [[Harvard University]], where he studied economics. From February 2004 to November 2008 he held senior roles at Facebook, including chief technology officer and vice president of engineering. He then cofounded [[Asana]] with [[Justin Rosenstein]], and with his wife [[Cari Tuna]] established [[Good Ventures]], the foundation that supplies nearly all of the grant money of [[Open Philanthropy]], renamed Coefficient Giving in 2025.[^1][^2] *[[Semafor]]* wrote that its founders and many early employees "were sympathetic to the utilitarian philosophical movement known as [[Effective Altruism|effective altruism]]."[^3] [[Peter Thiel]] was Facebook's first outside investor.[^4]
### Facebook and Asana
### Asana
Moskovitz was Zuckerberg's roommate at [[Harvard University]] and one of Facebook's founding team, serving as its first chief technology officer and head of engineering. He left in 2008 to cofound Asana with [[Justin Rosenstein]], took the company public in 2020, and built a second fortune; his net worth, derived chiefly from his early Facebook stake, exceeds sixteen billion dollars. He stepped down as Asana chief executive in March 2025 while remaining chairman.[^1][^3]
Moskovitz has been an Asana director since December 2008 and its chairman since December 2019. He was chief executive from October 2010 to July 2025, and also chief financial officer from 2009 to 2017. Asana went public by direct listing on the [[New York Stock Exchange]] in September 2020.[^4] In 2026 he held 74.2 percent of the company's voting power through his own shares, the Dustin A. Moskovitz Trust, a Roth IRA and shares held by Good Ventures; he bought 19,273,127 shares in a private placement on September 7, 2022.[^1] In 2016 [[Sam Altman]] led a 50-million-dollar investment in Asana.[^5] [[Adam D'Angelo]], Facebook's chief technology officer from 2006 to 2008 and founder of [[Quora]], sat on Asana's board from December 2008 to 2026 while also a director of [[OpenAI]]; [[Matthew Cohler]] of [[Benchmark Capital]], another Facebook alumnus, was an Asana director from 2009 to 2026. Asana's 2026 proxy statement reported, as related-person transactions, 1.1 million dollars in AI services bought from [[Anthropic]], noting that Moskovitz "has a minority ownership interest in Anthropic," and 300,000 dollars bought from OpenAI, noting D'Angelo's seat on its board.[^1]
Moskovitz retained roughly two percent of Facebook at its 2012 initial public offering, a stake worth several billion dollars that became the foundation of his wealth and his giving. Asana took its name from a yoga term and went public by direct listing on the New York Stock Exchange in September 2020. His March 2025 retirement announcement, in which he said he would transition out of the chief-executive role, was followed by a sharp drop in Asana's share price; he stayed on as board chair and remained the company's largest shareholder.[^1][^3]
### Good Ventures and Open Philanthropy
### Open Philanthropy and Effective Altruism
Good Ventures, whose directors are Moskovitz, Tuna and [[Divesh Makan]], the controlling partner of [[ICONIQ Capital]], held 10.1 billion dollars in assets in mid-2025 and received 1.4 billion dollars in contributions that year.[^2][^6] Open Philanthropy had given away about 7 billion dollars by September 2026, most of it from the couple's fortune.[^3] Its grants include 30 million dollars to OpenAI in 2017, with a board seat for [[Holden Karnofsky]], whose grant page disclosed that the OpenAI researchers [[Dario Amodei]] and [[Paul Christiano]] were Open Philanthropy advisers who lived in Karnofsky's house;[^7] 55 million dollars in 2019 to launch the [[Center for Security and Emerging Technology]] at [[Georgetown University]] under the former IARPA director [[Jason Matheny]]; 16 million dollars in 2023 to the [[RAND Corporation]] after Matheny became its chief executive, "to be spent at the discretion of" Matheny; 5.16 million dollars in 2022 to the [[Center for AI Safety]]; and 36 million dollars in 2025 to [[Redwood Research]].[^8]
In 2011 Moskovitz and Tuna founded Good Ventures, and they later joined with the charity evaluator [[GiveWell]] to create Open Philanthropy, which became the principal sustained financier of effective altruism, longtermism, and AI-safety work, directing more than four billion dollars in grants. The funding flowed to the same AI-risk research community around the [[Machine Intelligence Research Institute]] and the [[Future of Humanity Institute]] that [[Eliezer Yudkowsky]] and [[Nick Bostrom]] built, and Open Philanthropy was an early backer of the AI company [[Anthropic]]. Moskovitz signed the Giving Pledge, committing the majority of his wealth.[^2][^4]
### Anthropic
Good Ventures supplies nearly all of Open Philanthropy's grantmaking, making the foundation's reach a direct function of Moskovitz and Tuna's fortune; the organization's own analysis acknowledged that the movement's funding base rests heavily on the couple. Open Philanthropy's 2017 grant of 30 million dollars to [[OpenAI]] came with a board seat for co-chief-executive [[Holden Karnofsky]], an early instance of the foundation embedding itself inside an AI lab, and it later invested in Anthropic. Operating from November 2025 as Coefficient Giving, the organization began pooling money from outside donors so that other philanthropists could fund its cause areas alongside Good Ventures.[^2][^4]
Moskovitz took part in Anthropic's first funding round of 124 million dollars in 2021, and in 2023 told *[[Politico]]* that "my goal in investing [in Anthropic] stems from the exact same place as our non-profit work" and that any returns "will be entirely redirected back into our philanthropic work." The Open Philanthropy grantmaker [[Luke Muehlhauser]] was then one of Anthropic's four directors, and Karnofsky had married Anthropic's president, [[Daniela Amodei]].[^5] Muehlhauser resigned from the board in May 2024, writing that it had become complicated to be both an AI governance grantmaker at Open Philanthropy and a director of a frontier AI company.[^9] In April 2026 the *[[Washington Examiner]]* reported that in 2025 Moskovitz had transferred his Anthropic stake, "which had reportedly grown to roughly $500 million, to his charity to avoid the appearance of conflicts of interests."[^10] Asana's proxy statement of April 20, 2026 described Moskovitz as having "a minority ownership interest in Anthropic."[^1] *Semafor* called Coefficient Giving "a favorite of Anthropic executives"; its chief executive, [[Alexander Berger]], said in 2026: "We're definitely not the Anthropic Foundation."[^3]
### Washington
Open Philanthropy set aside nearly 3 million dollars in 2022 for the first fellows of the [[Horizon Institute for Public Service]], which pays technology fellows placed in congressional offices, federal agencies and think tanks, among them the offices of Senators [[Martin Heinrich]], [[Mike Rounds]] and [[Todd Young]], whom [[Chuck Schumer]] had put in charge of AI legislation; *Politico* wrote that Open Philanthropy had "effectively created" Horizon.[^5] Matheny served in the Biden [[White House]] from March 2021 to June 2022. According to documents the *Washington Examiner* obtained under the [[Freedom of Information Act]], he hired [[Ben Buchanan]], director of CSET's CyberAI project, under the Intergovernmental Personnel Act, with Georgetown continuing to pay Buchanan's salary and the government reimbursing it; the paper noted that CSET had received 97 million dollars from Open Philanthropy between 2019 and 2021, and that Buchanan became an architect of the Biden export controls on advanced chips that Anthropic later urged the Trump administration to keep. Buchanan said he "scrupulously complied with all legal and ethics rules." Senator [[Ted Cruz]], who named Moskovitz in a 2024 letter, wrote that "large AI technology companies are influencing the Biden administration's AI policy from the inside."[^10]
The lobbying arm of the Center for AI Safety stated that it secured 10 million dollars from Congress in 2024 to establish the [[U.S. AI Safety Institute]], where Christiano became head of AI safety.[^11] The 501(c)(4) [[Americans for Responsible Innovation]], founded in late 2023 by the former congressman [[Brad Carson]], lists Coefficient Giving among its funders with the [[Omidyar Network]], and reported in-house lobbying expenses of 1.51 million dollars in 2025. The [[Open Philanthropy Action Fund]] has paid outside lobbyists every year since 2021, the [[Kyle House Group]] since 2023.[^12]
### The Press
By 2025 Coefficient Giving supplied most of the funding of the [[Tarbell Center for AI Journalism]], which pays journalists placed at *[[Time (magazine)|Time]]*, [[Bloomberg]], *[[The Verge]]* and other newsrooms and publishes the newsletter *Transformer*; Coefficient's director of communications, [[Naina Bajekal]], was a former executive editor of *Time*.[^13] In September 2026 the publication *Effort*, founded by [[Brian Chau]], wrote that "Coefficient pays the salaries of two dozen journalists at major news outlets," that Open Philanthropy had pursued a "placement" strategy "to put their hand-picked employees in US and UK government offices," and that Moskovitz was the third-largest Democratic donor in 2020 and the second-largest in 2024.[^14]
### Political Giving
Moskovitz became one of the largest individual donors to Democratic causes, an explicit counterweight to right-wing megadonors. He and Tuna pledged roughly twenty million dollars to defeat [[Donald Trump]] and elect [[Hillary Clinton]] in 2016, and in 2020 he gave approximately ninety-two million dollars to the Democratic super PAC [[Future Forward]], among the largest single contributions of the cycle, followed by further giving to the same vehicle in 2024. The pattern is the inverse of Thiel's funding of Trump, [[JD Vance]], and the tech-right: two beneficiaries of the same company financing opposed political projects, while both poured money into the competing wings of the AI-risk debate.[^5][^6]
In the 2024 cycle Moskovitz gave 38 million dollars to Future Forward, the main super PAC backing [[Kamala Harris]], plus 929,600 dollars to the Biden Victory Fund, ranking among Harris's largest billionaire donors. The 2016 effort was bipartisan in intent: Moskovitz wrote that his roughly twenty-million-dollar commitment was meant to counter what he saw as the danger of a Trump presidency, the first time he and Tuna had given at that scale to electoral politics. He has framed his political spending in the same expected-value terms as his philanthropy, treating elections as high-stakes interventions on the same metric of marginal impact that governs Open Philanthropy's grants.[^5][^7]
On September 8, 2016, Moskovitz and Tuna announced 20 million dollars in contributions to defeat [[Donald Trump]] and elect [[Hillary Clinton]], calling Trump's promises to voters who felt left behind "quite possibly a deliberate con." They named 5 million dollars each to the [[LCV Victory Fund]] and [[For Our Future PAC]], and wrote that "we have reservations about anyone using large amounts of money to influence elections."[^15] [[Federal Election Commission]] records itemize contributions from Moskovitz of about 18.0 million dollars in the 2015-2016 cycle, led by 6 million to [[Priorities USA Action]], 4.5 million to the LCV Victory Fund, 2.5 million to For Our Future and 1.65 million to [[Color of Change PAC]]; 5.7 million in 2017-2018, including 3 million to [[MoveOn]] and 2 million to the [[Senate Majority PAC]]; 51.8 million in 2019-2020, including 46.89 million to the Democratic super PAC [[Future Forward]] and 830,600 dollars to the [[Biden Victory Fund]]; 5.9 million in 2021-2022, including 3.3 million to Future Forward and 1.9 million to its affiliate FFPA; and 50.9 million in 2023-2024, of which 50 million went to Future Forward in eight payments between August 28 and October 22, 2024, 30 million of it in October, and 929,600 dollars to the [[Harris Victory Fund]]. None had been itemized for the 2025-2026 cycle by September 2026.[^16] In March 2024 *[[Puck]]*'s [[Theodore Schleifer]] wrote that Moskovitz had spent "up to $100 million to defeat Donald Trump last cycle" and was "leaning into his power... and his checkbook" to beat back "the Andreessens and Musks of the world."[^17]
### Footnotes
[^1]: "Facebook Co-Founder Moskovitz Builds a Second Fortune With Asana," *Bloomberg,* October 1, 2021. https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-10-01/facebook-co-founder-moskovitz-builds-a-second-fortune-with-asana
[^2]: "How Dependent is the Effective Altruism Movement on Dustin Moskovitz and Cari Tuna?" EA Forum, on Open Philanthropy and Good Ventures funding. https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/4BJSXH9ho4eYNT73P/how-dependent-is-the-effective-altruism-movement-on-dustin
[^3]: "Asana CEO Dustin Moskovitz announces retirement," *CNBC,* March 10, 2025. https://www.cnbc.com/2025/03/10/asana-ceo-dustin-moskovitz-announces-retirement-stock-price-drops-25percent.html
[^4]: "The Making of Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei," Alex Kantrowitz, on Open Philanthropy as an early Anthropic funder. https://kantrowitz.medium.com/the-making-of-anthropic-ceo-dario-amodei-449777529dd6
[^5]: "Clinton campaign and Dems get $20M from Facebook co-founder Dustin Moskovitz," *TechCrunch,* September 8, 2016. https://techcrunch.com/2016/09/08/a-friend-of-hillary
[^6]: "Future Forward PAC," InfluenceWatch, on the approximately ninety-two million dollar 2020 contribution and the 2024 giving. https://www.influencewatch.org/political-party/future-forward-pac/
[^7]: "Trump, Harris' Top Billionaire Donors in 2024 Election," *Bloomberg,* and "Billionaires poured millions of dollars into presidential super PACs," *NBC News,* 2024, on the 38-million-dollar Future Forward gift and the 929,600-dollar Biden Victory Fund contribution. https://www.bloomberg.com/features/2024-billionaire-donors-us-election/
[^1]: Asana, Inc. Schedule 14A definitive proxy statement, filed April 20, 2026, U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1477720/000162828026025998/asan-20260420.htm
[^2]: ProPublica Nonprofit Explorer, "Good Ventures Foundation," EIN 46-1008520, Form 990-PF data through fiscal year ending June 2025. https://projects.propublica.org/nonprofits/organizations/461008520
[^3]: Smith, Ben. "Coefficient Giving's CEO on Silicon Valley's $40 billion philanthropy boom." *Semafor,* September 3, 2026. https://www.semafor.com/article/09/03/2026/coefficient-givings-ceo-on-silicon-valley-40-billion-philanthropy-boom
[^4]: "Facebook Co-Founder Moskovitz Builds a Second Fortune With Asana," *Bloomberg,* October 1, 2021. https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-10-01/facebook-co-founder-moskovitz-builds-a-second-fortune-with-asana
[^5]: Bordelon, Brendan. "How a billionaire-backed network of AI advisers took over Washington." *Politico,* October 13, 2023. http://web.archive.org/web/20250902172514/https://www.politico.com/news/2023/10/13/open-philanthropy-funding-ai-policy-00121362
[^6]: ICONIQ Capital, LLC, and others, Schedule 13G regarding Diameter Credit Co, November 13, 2024. https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1916099/000101143824000605/form_sc13g-diameter.htm
[^7]: Open Philanthropy, "OpenAI, General Support," March 2017, archived January 1, 2025. http://web.archive.org/web/20250101012608/https://www.openphilanthropy.org/grants/openai-general-support/
[^8]: Open Philanthropy grant pages, archived 2025: "Georgetown University, Center for Security and Emerging Technology" (January 2019), http://web.archive.org/web/20250102035307/https://www.openphilanthropy.org/grants/georgetown-university-center-for-security-and-emerging-technology/ ; "RAND Corporation, Emerging Technology Initiatives" (October 2023), http://web.archive.org/web/20250122041729/https://www.openphilanthropy.org/grants/rand-corporation-emerging-technology-initiatives/ ; "Center for AI Safety, General Support (2022)," http://web.archive.org/web/20250102035329/https://www.openphilanthropy.org/grants/center-for-ai-safety-general-support/ ; Smith, "Coefficient Giving's CEO," on Redwood.
[^9]: Muehlhauser, Luke. "Why I resigned from the Anthropic Board." June 12, 2024. https://lukemuehlhauser.com/why-i-resigned-from-the-anthropic-board/
[^10]: Schmad, Robert. "Documents show how a tech-connected nonprofit shaped Biden-era AI policy." *Washington Examiner,* April 17, 2026. https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/investigations/4532389/
[^11]: Center for AI Safety Action Fund, "2024 Annual Impact Report." https://cdn.prod.website-files.com/66438c042d15b14b53b83006/68012dcfec6880aba24f528a_CAIS-ActionFund-ImpactReport_05.pdf
[^12]: Americans for Responsible Innovation, "About Us," https://ari.us/about-us/ ; U.S. Senate, Lobbying Disclosure Act database, filings for clients "Americans for Responsible Innovation" and "Open Philanthropy Action Fund," 2021 to 2026, retrieved September 2026. https://lda.senate.gov/api/v1/filings/?client_name=Americans+for+Responsible+Innovation
[^13]: Tarbell Center for AI Journalism, "Ethics and Standards policies," February 20, 2026, https://www.tarbellcenter.org/ethics-and-standards ; Tani, Max. "AI critics funded AI coverage at top newsrooms." *Semafor,* December 7, 2025. https://www.semafor.com/article/12/07/2025/ai-critics-funded-ai-coverage-at-top-newsrooms
[^14]: Effort. "How Effective Altruism Bought the Media," September 2, 2026, https://www.effort.news/tarbell ; Effort. "Effective Altruism is Buying Political Staff," September 19, 2026. https://www.effort.news/aisi
[^15]: Moskovitz, Dustin, and Cari Tuna. "Compelled to Act." *Medium,* September 8, 2016, archived December 31, 2016. http://web.archive.org/web/20161231130245/https://medium.com/@moskov/compelled-to-act-1413930041ee
[^16]: Federal Election Commission, itemized receipts (Schedule A, memo entries excluded) for contributor "Moskovitz, Dustin," two-year periods 2016 through 2026, retrieved September 23, 2026. https://api.open.fec.gov/v1/schedules/schedule_a/?contributor_name=Moskovitz%2C+Dustin
[^17]: Schleifer, Theodore. "DustinBucks." *Puck,* March 20, 2024, archived January 10, 2025. http://web.archive.org/web/20250110050826/https://puck.news/dustinbucks/

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category: "Law Enforcement & Legal"
aliases:
- "Frederick B. Lacey"
- "Frederick Bernard Lacey"
tags:
- Person
- Judge
- FISACourt
- BNL
- Iraqgate
summary: "New Jersey prosecutor and federal judge, one of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court's first judges, whom William Barr named in 1992 to review the BNL-Iraq case and who cleared the Justice Department."
born: 1920-09-09
died: 2017-04-01
location: "Newark, New Jersey"
relations:
- type: member_of
with: "[[Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court]]"
role: "judge"
start: 1979
end: 1985
fn: 1
- type: investigated
with: "[[Brent Scowcroft]]"
start: 1992
fn: 3
- type: investigated
with: "[[Lawrence Eagleburger]]"
start: 1992
fn: 3
- type: prosecuted
with: "[[Albert Anastasia]]"
start: 1954
fn: 2
created: 2026-09-22
updated: 2026-09-23
---
Frederick Bernard Lacey was born in Newark, [[New Jersey]], on September 9, 1920, the son of the city's police chief, and studied at Rutgers and Cornell Law School; he served in the Naval Reserve from 1942 to 1946. As an assistant U.S. attorney in New Jersey he led the case that sent [[Albert Anastasia]] to prison for income-tax evasion in 1954. [[Richard Nixon]] made him U.S. attorney for New Jersey in 1969; he prosecuted Newark's mayor, Hugh Addonizio, Jersey City's mayor, Thomas Whalen, the Hudson County boss John V. Kenny and Mafia figures, and with his successor, Herbert Stern, convicted three dozen officials within four years. Nixon appointed him a district judge in 1970; he served until 1986 and sat on the Temporary Emergency Court of Appeals from 1978 and on the [[Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court]] from 1979 to 1985. After retiring he joined LeBoeuf, Lamb, Leiby and MacRae, served as special master over the International Brotherhood of Teamsters, and in 2006 was federal monitor of Bristol-Myers Squibb over the drug Plavix. He died in Naples, Florida, on April 1, 2017.[^1][^2]
### The BNL Investigation
Attorney General [[William Barr]] declined to seek an independent counsel in the [[BNL Scandal|Banca Nazionale del Lavoro]] affair and on October 16, 1992, appointed Lacey special counsel; he reported 54 days later. He wrote: "I find Judge Shoob's specific charges against the USAO to be inaccurate," rejecting the criticisms of Judge [[Marvin Shoob]]. Of [[Brent Scowcroft]] and [[Lawrence Eagleburger]], he wrote: "It is clear that, while at [[Kissinger Associates]], Scowcroft and Eagleburger came into contact with [[Banca Nazionale del Lavoro|BNL]] management. I have seen nothing, however, to suggest that they knew of BNL-Atlanta's wrongful loans to Iraq or influenced the prosecution of this matter." The second part of the report was classified.[^3] According to *The Village Voice,* the report dismissed the allegations as "arrogant nonsense," while Lacey acknowledged that he could not determine "who at Justice saw what and when" and was "unable to penetrate with any precision where responsibility lay."[^4] Representative [[Henry B. Gonzalez]], chairman of the [[House Banking Committee]], told the House on January 21, 1993, that "from the start it was apparent that Judge Lacey was nothing more than a lackey," called the report "the Lacey Job," and said that "at best" it was a whitewash.[^5]
### Footnotes
[^1]: Federal Judicial Center, "Lacey, Frederick Bernard," Biographical Directory of Article III Federal Judges. https://www.fjc.gov/history/judges/lacey-frederick-bernard
[^2]: Historical Society of the United States District Court for the District of New Jersey, "Frederick Bernard Lacey." https://www.historynjdc.org/judges/judicial-biographies/frederick-bernard-lacey ; "'French Connection' Judge Dies at 96," Associated Press, via *Governing,* April 2017.
[^3]: Lacey, Frederick B. "The Banca Nazionale del Lavoro Investigation: Report of the Independent Counsel," reproduced in House Committee on Banking, Finance and Urban Affairs, Serial No. 103-95, 1993, pp. 514-15. https://archive.org/details/testimonyofforme1994unit
[^4]: "Will We Ever Learn the Truth About Iraqgate?" *The Village Voice,* reprinted November 2, 2020.
[^5]: Gonzalez, Henry B. "Update on BNL Investigation," *Congressional Record,* House, January 21, 1993. https://irp.fas.org/congress/1993_cr/h930121-bnl.htm

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category: "AI & Effective Altruism"
tags:
- Person
- IntelligenceCommunity
- IARPA
- RAND
- CSET
- OpenPhilanthropy
- EffectiveAltruism
summary: "IARPA director who founded Georgetown's Open Philanthropy-funded CSET, ran technology policy at Biden's National Security Council, became RAND's chief executive in 2022 and was an original Anthropic trustee."
relations:
- type: head_of
with: "[[Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Activity]]"
role: "director"
fn: 1
- type: head_of
with: "[[Center for Security and Emerging Technology]]"
role: "founding director"
start: 2019
end: 2021-03
fn: 2
- type: member_of
with: "[[National Security Commission on Artificial Intelligence]]"
role: "commissioner, appointed by Congress"
start: 2018
fn: 1
- type: employed_by
with: "[[National Security Council]]"
role: "coordinator for technology and national security; also deputy director for national security at OSTP"
start: 2021-03
fn: 3
- type: head_of
with: "[[RAND Corporation]]"
role: "president and chief executive"
start: 2022-07
fn: 1
created: 2026-09-22
updated: 2026-09-23
---
Jason Matheny holds a Ph.D. in applied economics and an M.P.H. from [[Johns Hopkins University]], an M.B.A. from [[Duke University]] and a B.A. in art history from the [[University of Chicago]]. He worked for [[University of Oxford|Oxford University]] and the [[World Bank]] before joining the intelligence community, where he became director of the [[Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Activity]] (IARPA), responsible for developing advanced technologies for the U.S. intelligence community. He received the intelligence community's Award for Individual Achievement in Science and Technology and the [[National Intelligence Superior Service Medal]].[^1] [[Open Philanthropy]]'s 2019 grant page described him as having co-founded [[New Harvest]], the cultured-meat nonprofit, and as someone who "broadly shares our interest in cost-effective ways of doing as much good as possible."[^2]
### CSET and the White House
In January 2019 Open Philanthropy gave 55 million dollars over five years to [[Georgetown University]] to launch the [[Center for Security and Emerging Technology]] with Matheny as its director; the grant investigator was [[Luke Muehlhauser]]. The grant page cited "multiple conversations with leaders in the defense, intelligence, and policymaking communities" and noted his seat on the [[National Security Commission on Artificial Intelligence]], created by Congress in 2018.[^2] In March 2021 he left CSET for the [[White House]] with three titles: deputy assistant to the president for technology and national security, deputy director for national security in the [[Office of Science and Technology Policy]], and coordinator for technology and national security at the [[National Security Council]]. The NSCAI report he had helped write had recommended changes to national AI policy that he would now help oversee. [[Dewey Murdick]] took over CSET as interim director.[^3]
### RAND
Matheny became president and chief executive of the [[RAND Corporation]] in July 2022.[^1] Open Philanthropy gave RAND 5.5 million dollars in April 2023 and 10.5 million in October 2023, in each case "to be spent at the discretion of RAND president and CEO Jason Matheny"; he allocated the October gift to a technology policy training program, the [[Pardee RAND Graduate School]], a new China studies center and a research fund on emerging technology and security.[^4] In September 2023 he became one of the five original trustees of [[Anthropic]]'s [[Long-Term Benefit Trust]], and he stepped down in December 2023, according to Anthropic, "to preempt any potential conflicts of interest that might arise with RAND Corporation's policy-related initiatives."[^5]
In October 2023 the *[[Politico]]* reporter [[Brendan Bordelon]] called Matheny "a luminary in the effective altruist community." He reported that Matheny had recommended licensing of advanced AI to the [[House Science Committee]], and that the RAND information scientist [[Jeff Alstott]], who had worked in the White House alongside Matheny, had in an April 19, 2023 email to members of the [[Omidyar Network]] circulated an AI licensing proposal he said he had shared with about "40 Hill staffers of both parties," asking recipients to "keep this document and attribution off the public internet." A RAND spokesperson, Jeffrey Hiday, confirmed the email, said Open Philanthropy's money had no bearing on RAND's recommendations, and called Matheny "a financially disinterested trustee."[^6]
### The AI Executive Order
In December 2023 *Politico* reported that RAND personnel, including Alstott, had helped draft the reporting requirements in Section 4 of President Biden's executive order on AI of October 30, 2023, which set the reporting threshold for advanced models at more than 10^26 operations, the figure Alstott had proposed; all six of the policy recommendations Alstott made at a September Senate hearing appeared in Section 4 "in some fashion." At a RAND all-hands meeting on October 25, 2023, a recording of which *Politico* obtained, Matheny said that the "National Security Council, [the Department of Defense] and [the Department of Homeland Security] have been deeply worried about catastrophic risk from future AI systems and asked RAND to produce several analyses," which "informed new export controls and a key executive action expected from the White House next week." An employee at the meeting asked whether the "push for the effective altruism agenda, with testimony and policy memos under RAND's brand, is appropriate"; Matheny answered that it would be "irresponsible" not to address catastrophic AI risk and that "if anything, [he's] seen Open Philanthropy be more hands-off." On October 30, hours before the order was released, Alstott emailed RAND colleagues what he called "a version [of the order] from a week ago." Hiday confirmed the recording and the email and said funders "have no influence on the results of our work." Two Horizon fellows worked at RAND.[^7]
In April 2026 the *[[Washington Examiner]]* reported, from documents obtained under the [[Freedom of Information Act]], that while at the White House Matheny had hired [[Ben Buchanan]], director of CSET's CyberAI project, under the Intergovernmental Personnel Act, with Georgetown continuing to pay Buchanan's salary and the government reimbursing it, and tasked him with helping craft the administration's AI policies; Buchanan became an architect of the Biden export controls on advanced chips. Buchanan said he "scrupulously complied with all legal and ethics rules and answered only to President Biden and the senior White House staff." RAND did not provide comment from Matheny.[^8]
In a letter to Matheny of September 2024, Senator [[Ted Cruz]], ranking member of the [[Senate Commerce Committee]], wrote that "RAND apparently had an outsized role in drafting the AI Executive Order," that the order "captures all six of the policy recommendations a senior RAND official provided in congressional testimony last year," and that "you are one of five members on Anthropic's 'Long-Term Benefit Trust.'" He wrote that [[Tasha McCauley]], "an adjunct senior management scientist at RAND and effective altruism advocate," had left [[OpenAI]]'s board, and that "Last year, Open Philanthropy gave RAND $16 million."[^9]
### Footnotes
[^1]: RAND Corporation, "Jason Matheny," staff biography. https://www.rand.org/about/people/m/matheny_jason.html
[^2]: Open Philanthropy, "Georgetown University, Center for Security and Emerging Technology," grant of January 2019, archived January 2, 2025. http://web.archive.org/web/20250102035307/https://www.openphilanthropy.org/grants/georgetown-university-center-for-security-and-emerging-technology/
[^3]: "Jason Matheny to serve Biden White House in national security and tech roles." *FedScoop,* March 9, 2021. https://fedscoop.com/white-house-announces-top-tech-adviser-jason-matheny-national-security/
[^4]: Open Philanthropy, "RAND Corporation, Emerging Technology Initiatives," gift of October 2023, with the related April 2023 gift, archived January 22, 2025. http://web.archive.org/web/20250122041729/https://www.openphilanthropy.org/grants/rand-corporation-emerging-technology-initiatives/
[^5]: Anthropic, "The Long-Term Benefit Trust," September 19, 2023, with later updates. https://www.anthropic.com/news/the-long-term-benefit-trust
[^6]: Bordelon, Brendan. "How a billionaire-backed network of AI advisers took over Washington." *Politico,* October 13, 2023. http://web.archive.org/web/20250902172514/https://www.politico.com/news/2023/10/13/open-philanthropy-funding-ai-policy-00121362
[^7]: Bordelon, Brendan. "Think tank tied to tech billionaires played key role in Biden's AI order." *Politico,* December 15, 2023, archived February 11, 2026. http://web.archive.org/web/20260211112614/https://www.politico.com/news/2023/12/15/billionaire-backed-think-tank-played-key-role-in-bidens-ai-order-00132128
[^8]: Schmad, Robert. "Documents show how a tech-connected nonprofit shaped Biden-era AI policy." *Washington Examiner,* April 17, 2026. https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/investigations/4532389/
[^9]: U.S. Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation, "Sen. Cruz Sounds Alarm Over Industry Role in AI Czar Harris's Censorship Agenda," September 16, 2024, quoting Cruz's letter to Matheny. https://www.commerce.senate.gov/press/rep/release/sen-cruz-sounds-alarm-over-industry-role-in-ai-czar-harriss-censorship-agenda/

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Luke Muehlhauser was the grant investigator for [[Open Philanthropy]]'s 55-million-dollar grant of January 2019 to [[Georgetown University]] that launched the [[Center for Security and Emerging Technology]] under the former IARPA director [[Jason Matheny]], with [[Helen Toner]], formerly of Open Philanthropy, on its founding team.[^1] After Matheny became chief executive of the [[RAND Corporation]], Muehlhauser, described by Open Philanthropy as the person "who leads our grantmaking on AI governance," recommended its gift of 10.5 million dollars in October 2023, which followed an April 2023 gift, "to be spent at the discretion of RAND president and CEO Jason Matheny."[^2]
In October 2023 *[[Politico]]* reported that Muehlhauser, "Open Philanthropy's senior program officer for AI governance and policy," was one of the four members of the board of [[Anthropic]], in which Open Philanthropy's funder [[Dustin Moskovitz]] had invested.[^3] He resigned from the board on May 28, 2024. In a post of June 12, 2024, he wrote that "it became increasingly complicated over time for me to simultaneously be (a) an AI governance grantmaker at Open Philanthropy (my day job), where we support a wide variety of organizations including some who work on US AI policy, and (b) a Board member at a US-based frontier AI company (though I've never held any Anthropic equity)," and that the resignation was not safety-related.[^4]
### Footnotes
[^1]: Open Philanthropy, "Georgetown University, Center for Security and Emerging Technology," grant of January 2019, archived January 2, 2025. http://web.archive.org/web/20250102035307/https://www.openphilanthropy.org/grants/georgetown-university-center-for-security-and-emerging-technology/
[^2]: Open Philanthropy, "RAND Corporation, Emerging Technology Initiatives," gift of October 2023, archived January 22, 2025. http://web.archive.org/web/20250122041729/https://www.openphilanthropy.org/grants/rand-corporation-emerging-technology-initiatives/
[^3]: Bordelon, Brendan. "How a billionaire-backed network of AI advisers took over Washington." *Politico,* October 13, 2023. http://web.archive.org/web/20250902172514/https://www.politico.com/news/2023/10/13/open-philanthropy-funding-ai-policy-00121362
[^4]: Muehlhauser, Luke. "Why I resigned from the Anthropic Board." June 12, 2024. https://lukemuehlhauser.com/why-i-resigned-from-the-anthropic-board/

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Webster L. Hubbell was a partner of [[Hillary Rodham Clinton]] and [[Vince Foster]] in the [[Rose Law Firm]] of [[Little Rock, Arkansas|Little Rock]] and became associate attorney general of the [[United States]] in the [[Department of Justice]] in January 1993.[^1]
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McLarty and his staff director, William Burton, "telephoned Hubbell about once a week, telling him he still had friends in the White House." McLarty, [[Erskine Bowles]] of the [[Small Business Administration]], [[Truman Arnold]], and [[Vernon Jordan]] "made calls on Hubbell's behalf." "As a result, seventeen people and companies who were supporters of the President hired Hubbell to do consulting work, paying him in excess of $500,000 over a period of less than a year." He reported 376,075 dollars of it on his tax return for 1994 and paid no tax on it.[^1]
One of the seventeen was the [[Lippo Group]]. On June 23, 1994, [[James Riady]] had breakfast with Hubbell at the [[Hay-Adams Hotel]], met President [[Bill Clinton|Clinton]] at ten with [[John Huang]], and had lunch with Hubbell. On June 27 Hubbell wrote to a director of [[Hong Kong China Limited]], a Lippo company, offering his services for 100,000 dollars a year, and the money was in his account by that day. "Both Riady and Hubbell refuse to describe what services, if any, Hubbell performed," a House committee reported. Lippo also paid for a trip to [[Jakarta]] and [[Bali]] for Hubbell and his wife. Before the committee Hubbell invoked the [[Fifth Amendment to the United States Constitution|Fifth Amendment]]. He wrote in his memoir: "it wasn't hush money."[^3]
One of the seventeen was the [[Lippo Group]]. On June 23, 1994, [[James Riady]] had breakfast with Hubbell at the [[Hay-Adams Hotel]], met President [[Bill Clinton|Clinton]] at ten with [[John Huang]], and had lunch with Hubbell. On June 27 Hubbell wrote to a director of [[Hong Kong China Limited]], a Lippo company, offering his services for 100,000 dollars a year, and the money was in his account by that day. "Both Riady and Hubbell refuse to describe what services, if any, Hubbell performed," a House committee reported. Lippo also paid for a trip to [[Jakarta]] and [[Bali]] for Hubbell and his wife. Before the committee Hubbell invoked the [[Fifth Amendment to the United States Constitution|Fifth Amendment]]. He wrote in his memoir: "it wasn't hush money."[^3] In September 1994, after meetings in a Hong Kong office building bearing the Lippo name, Hubbell traveled to Jakarta, where he met the family's patriarch, [[Mochtar Riady]], and the U.S. ambassador to Indonesia; James Riady introduced him there as a close friend of the president and told him to get Clinton to play golf in Bali during the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation meeting.[^1]
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