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Trump names new head for VOA parent after court rebukes Kari Lake

The Washington Post · Scott Nover and Adam Taylor · last updated

Lake, whom a judge found has been illegally running the agency, said that she will stay on as deputy CEO.

Department official, as chief executive of the U.S. Agency for Global Media, which oversees Voice of America, amid a protracted legal battle between employees and the agency’s top official, Kari Lake.

U.S. District Judge Royce Lamberth, a Reagan administration nominee, ruled Saturday that Lake has been illegally running the agency, which oversees VOA and funds international broadcasters like Radio Free Asia. The ruling also nullified months of Lake’s actions, including a mass layoff of hundreds of employees, which he had previously paused.

Lake attempted to portray herself as the agency’s CEO, despite never being nominated by Trump for the role, Lamberth wrote in an opinion.

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