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csziggy

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16. OSC filed numerous violations against the former guy's people for years
Fri May 14, 2021, 01:32 PM
May 2021

But according to this Forbes article:

Here's Why Trump Officials Rarely Face Penalties For Hatch Act Violations
Andrew Solender
Updated Aug 27, 2020, 12:33pm EDT

Sherman noted that while penalties for civil violations of the Hatch Act can include fines and removal from federal service, it is enforced by the White House or by the Merit Systems Protection Board – which the OSC rarely refers high-level cases to – leading to mostly low level Trump administration staffers facing punitive actions while high-level political appointees have gone largely unscathed.

One reason why many ethics violations by Trump administration officials have gone largely unnoticed, let alone unpunished, Sherman asserts, is because the OSC, run by Republican Henry Kerner, doesn’t perform “affirmative enforcement,” instead waiting for complaints by watchdog groups like CREW or government whistleblowers before investigating and making recommendations.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/andrewsolender/2020/08/26/heres-why-trump-officials-rarely-face-penalties-for-hatch-act-violations/?sh=2edb4f3ba2d2


CREW filed many complaints, but still nothing was done. Here is a link to a search of the CREW website for "OSC violations":

https://www.citizensforethics.org/?s=osc+violations

Not a single report of any action taken against those mentioned in the complaints.
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