The Office of Special Counsel (OSC) on Tuesday announced a settlement with former Housing and Urban Development (HUD) officialLynne Patton, a political appointee and ally of formerPresident Trump’s, for a Hatch Act violation over a video she produced for last year’s Republican National Convention.
As part of the settlement, Patton admitted that she violated the Hatch Act with the video in which the then-HUD Region II administrator interviewed residents of the New York City Housing Authority (NYCHA) about their living conditions while apparently not letting the participants know that the video would be used for political purposes.
“During her approximately one-month stay, Patton met residents and later leveraged one of these relationships to recruit participants to film a video that would air at the RNC. Patton wanted NYCHA residents to appear in the video to explain how their standard of living had improved under the Trump administration,” the OSC said in a news release.
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