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Ex-Trump Official Lynne Patton Violated Hatch Act With Deceptive RNC Vids: OSC

FINED & BARRED

HUD appointee Lynne Patton filmed a video purportedly about housing conditions in New York but it ended up being used at the Republican National Convention.

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Lynne Patton, a Trump administration official who worked for the Department of Housing and Urban Development, has been fined $1,000 and barred from federal employment for two years for violating the Hatch Act.

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