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Article: OFFICE OF SPECIAL COUNSEL ANNOUNCES SETTLEMENT OF HATCH ACT COMPLAINT
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- US Fed News Service, Including US State News
- Article date:
- January 3, 2007
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The Office of Special Counsel issued the following press release:
Today, the United States Office of Special Counsel (OSC) announced its favorable settlement of a complaint seeking disciplinary action against a federal employee for violating the Hatch Act. The employee, while on duty, in a federal building and using a government e-mail account, distributed an e-mail containing a political endorsement in favor of a Presidential candidate. The employee sent the e-mail to more than twenty recipients, a group that included other federal employees, professional contacts, and friends. Because the employee showed good faith by acknowledging the Hatch Act violation, agreeing to undertake Hatch Act ...