US whistleblowers say they were fired for raising fair housing concerns | Trump administration
The US Ministry of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) in the Anti -Discrimination Department, two lawyers, the Trump administration’s efforts to fight residential discrimination, claiming that they were fired on Monday a week after a notice report, a reporting report, he said.
Paul Osadebe and Palmer Heenan worked at HUD’s Adil Housing Office (Off), who was responsible for filing a lawsuit against the parties accused of discrimination against tenants and hosts within a turning point of civil rights law. In a report sent to Democratic Senator Elizabeth Warren, Heenan, Osadebe and two anonymous colleagues last month, in accordance with the 1968 Fair Housing Law, discrimination was “not a priority for management, and that their offices were aimed at shrinking because their“ optical problem ”.
On Monday, Osadebe was invited to a meeting with HUD executives, who stated that he was allowed at the expectation of ignition. Interviews given to him a document New York Times And Washington Post Violating the department policy.
“This was entirely for information flying activity. Behavior, performance, there was nothing about any of them, Os Osadebe said in an interview. “They said, that’s why we fired you because you talked. They are as clear as possible.”
According to a letter given by HUD, Heenan, who was under the controlled stage of his employment, was fired at a similar meeting for çocuk disclosure of non -public information ”.
The press office of the department did not respond immediately to the request request.
Senate Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs Committee at the Committee of Democrat Warren, following the fires, said: “Donald Trump does not want Americans to know that they have a systemic attack on the rights of the administration.
“So the Trump administration silences those who say how Donald Trump and Scott Turner are [the HUD secretary] Women with domestic violence are turning their backs to the American people, including elderly people who need extra help to go down the stairs because of the color of the skin of the families. “
Heenan and Osadebe were told to move from Off, who recently lost several staff and ready to shrink even more by re -appointment. Last week, they and their three other colleagues sued Turner to prevent transfers, claiming that they were part of their efforts to weaken the implementation of laws.
Heenan, “Although we know that we are taking risks, this administration will violate the noticers of this way so clearly,” he said.
“I will not stop talking. I will not stop fighting because these rights are very important.”
