As part of the so-called Department of Government Efficiency, a former Tesla employee has been installed as a senior adviser to the Federal Bureau of Investigation, records shared with The Intercept show.

Tarak Makecha, who previously worked at Elon Musk’s electric car company, now has roles at both the FBI and the Justice Department’s Justice Management Division, according to staff lists.

At the FBI, the records show Makecha is a “senior advisor” to the agency’s executive assistant director for human resources. At the Justice Management Division, he is listed as an “advisor” to the office of the chief information officer, which oversees IT and cybersecurity for the department.

According to a DOJ source, who spoke on condition of anonymity out of fear of retaliation, Makecha’s work at the Justice Department has focused in part on the department’s grant-making operations, which DOGE recently leveraged to target a criminal justice nonprofit.

Since President Donald Trump returned to the White House, Musk’s DOGE squad has swept through federal agencies swiftly, gutting targets like the U.S. Agency for International Development and the Consumer Finance Protection Bureau and gaining access to sensitive data systems at the Social Security Administration and IRS.

Musk has entrusted this work to a secretive crew, whose members often have ties to his own private ventures, including Tesla, SpaceX, and X. The records shared with The Intercept fill in gaps about Makecha and two other DOGE operatives assigned to the Justice Department, where their aim remains unknown.

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