Trump Housing Agency Removes Civil Rights Whistleblowers (1)

The Department of Housing and Urban Development moved to fire two HUD civil rights attorneys who signed a whistleblower disclosure alleging a pullback in fair housing enforcement at the agency.

Fair housing lawyers Paul Osadebe and Palmer Heenan said they were summoned separately to meetings with HUD operations personnel on Sept. 29. Both were given letters and asked to collect their belongings and leave the building.

Heenan, who is a probationary employee, received a notice saying he was being terminated for misconduct including sharing nonpublic information, according to documents viewed by Bloomberg News. Osadebe was told he was being put ...