Angry Fed Tries To Break Rules, Quits When Caught, Blames Racism
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Kathryn Watson
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3:28 PM 06/29/2016
A U.S. Patent and Trademark Office boss who voluntarily retired claimed she was forced out because of her race and nationality after being demoted for nepotism, according to federal court documents.
Hoa Nguyen was working as a supervisory patent examiner when she “violated rules prohibiting nepotism in attempting to use her position in the agency to prevent her son, a probationary patent examiner also at the agency, from being fired,” according to testimony. The testimony is part of a U.S. Merit Systems Protection Board (MSPB) case that was appealed to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit in D.C. The case was first reported by FedSmith.com.
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