Here's your Forbes Daily Briefing for Saturday, March 8th. Today on Forbes, a top Pentagon

Doge official looks like a successful founder. His story doesn't always add up. For weeks,

Pentagon officials had been bracing themselves for the arrival of Elon Musk's Department of

Government Efficiency, or Doge,

wondering who the world's richest man had tapped to oversee an unprecedented overhaul of the U.S.

government's single largest department.

Now, Forbes has learned that one of Musk's chosen employees to take the chainsaw to the Pentagon's

nearly $1 trillion budget is a serial entrepreneur with a master's in

terrorism studies named Justin Fulcher, according to a Pentagon official and two other people

briefed on his work. A glance at his career suggests he's a successful entrepreneur, the founder of a

global telehealth startup and a charity focused on boosting access to internet

connectivity and health care in South Carolina. He was also behind a $500 million plan to invest

in an advanced manufacturing plant that was hailed by the Biden administration. And like a number

of Doge hires before him, Fulcher, who started his first software company as a teenager,

has impressive programming chops, according to former colleagues and collaborators who spoke with Forbes.

Multiple people said he claimed to have done programming work for the FBI as a teenager.

The FBI declined to comment.

But a closer examination of Fultcher's career also suggests his

accomplishments don't always add up, according to internal company documents and interviews

with 10 people who have worked with him. Fultcher's Singapore-based telehealth company, RingMD,

for instance, went bankrupt after he raised more than $10 million from investors.

His attempt to restart it in the U.S. led to litigation with a business partner,

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