
The ex-FEMA supervisor who last year ordered underlings to “avoid homes advertising Trump” when aiding hurricane-hit areas was engaging in illegal partisan political activity, a federal watchdog says. The US Office of Special Counsel filed a Hatch Act complaint on Tuesday against ousted Federal Emergency Management Agency higher-up Marn’i Washington for ordering her staffers in October to not offer disaster-relief services to Hurricane Milton victims in Florida supporting the Republican president’s campaign. OSC investigators “confirmed that Ms. Washington repeatedly told her subordinate crew members not to visit properties with Trump...