On the same day she was removed, the CFO was accused of being a “deep-state activist” and “funneling $58M to illegal migrant hotels in Manhattan.”
The former chief financial officer of FEMA, who was notified in February 2025 that she was being removed from her position, and from federal service, at the direction of President Trump pursuant to Article II of the U.S. Constitution, and who was simultaneously accused by government officials of “circumventing leadership to unilaterally make egregious payments for luxury NYC hotels for migrants,” was deprived of her property interest in continued federal employment without due process of law and is entitled to a name-clearing hearing, a federal court in Virginia declared, granting her motion for partial summary judgment. Although it recognized that “with the overruling of Humphrey’s Executor, the President’s Article II power to remove the principal officer leaders of independent agencies has reached a high-water mark,” that case, it explained, had nothing to do with inferior officers, and the law “does not permit Defendants to fire Plaintiff, nor to publicly denigrate her in conjunction with that action, without due process” (Comans v. Executive Office of the President, No. 1:25-cv-MSN-WEF (E.D. Va. July 22, 2026)).
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