The Office of Special Counsel has reprimanded Lynne Patton, a top Department of Housing and Urban Development official with ties to President Donald Trump’s family, for making political statements on the job.
“Although OSC concluded that you violated the Hatch Act by unwittingly displaying a campaign hat in your office and ‘liking’ partisan political tweets on your official Twitter account, we have decided not to pursue disciplinary action and are closing our files without further action,” Erica Hamrick, deputy chief of the OSC’s Hatch Act Unit, wrote in a letter to Patton Wednesday.
“OSC decided not to pursue disciplinary action for two minor infractions,” she added of the two incidents where the office found fault. “I look forward to continuing to focus on the residents of New York and New Jersey, whose well-being I care about the most.” Story continuesThe reposted tweet also took a swipe at Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s intelligence, but the OSC determined that message did not run afoul of the Hatch Act because neither Carson nor Ocasio-Cortez were candidates for office at the time.
“Please be advised that if in the future you engage in prohibited political activity while employed in a position covered by the Hatch Act, we will consider such activity to be a willful and knowing violation of the law, which could result in further action,” Hamrick wrote to Patton.
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