Deborah Gore Dean is a former United States federal employee in the

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during the

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presidency. She is also a distant relative of Senator Albert Gore Sr. and

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of former

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Albert Gore Jr. She is most famous for her involvement in a fraud scandal at the Department of Housing and Urban Development involving the Moderate Rehabilitation Program.

Biography

Deborah Gore Dean is a graduate of

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and the niece of onetime Maryland GOP leader

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. Her father, Gordon Dean, who was featured on the cover of ''

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'' magazine, won the

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for his work at the

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, chairman of the

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, and

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executive. Her mother, Mary Benton Gore Dean was a Washington socialite and owner of the

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restaurant and

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. Dean graduated with her B.A. from

. Between 1982-1987, Dean worked for the

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(HUD) under Secretary

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. Before that she served at the United States Department of Energy (DOE) as special assistant to the secretary. On June 23, 1987, President

announced his intention to nominate Deborah Gore Dean to be an Assistant Secretary of Housing and Urban Development. However there she was caught up in one of Washington, D.C.'s many political scandals that eventually found itself in front of the Supreme Court. In 1993, a jury convicted Deborah Gore Dean of three counts of

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to defraud the federal government, one count of having accepted an illegal

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, four counts of

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, and four counts of engaging in a scheme to conceal material facts. The United States Court of Appeals eventually threw out the bulk of the charges. The District Court had sentenced Dean to two concurrent terms of twenty-one months' confinement on the first two conspiracy counts and fined Dean $2,500 on each of those counts. On each of the remaining counts, the court sentenced Dean to twenty-one months' confinement, to run concurrently with each other and with the sentences imposed under the first two conspiracy counts.FindLaw for Legal Professionals - Case Law, Federal and State Resources, Forms, and Code
/ref> Based on the ruling of the Court of Appeals, Dean was re-sentenced and eventually served one year of home confinement and a monetary fine.

References

External links

United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia (92cr00181)
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