President Donald Trump has picked a loyal family event planner to run Housing and Urban Development (HUD) programs for the New York-New Jersey area, the New York Daily News reported.
While Lynne Patton planned Eric Trump's wedding, she has zero housing experience nor does she have a law degree, the Daily News reported.
Now, she is in charge of billions of dollars of taxpayer money.
Patton became the Trump family event planner in 2009, and starting in 2011, she helped Eric Trump run the Eric Trump Foundation, now under investigation by the New York attorney general, the Daily News reported. She is no longer with the foundation.
On her LinkedIn page, Patton claims to have a juris doctorate degree from Quinnipiac University School of Law in Connecticut; the school said she attended for two semesters, but did not graduate, the Daily News reported.
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