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Delaney Marsco

Delaney Marsco is director of ethics at the Campaign Legal Center, a legal advocacy group in Washington, where she has worked since 2018 on government ethics enforcement and reform, including congressional stock trading and conflicts of interest in the federal executive branch. She previously worked in financial crime compliance at Goldman Sachs and is a graduate of the Ohio State University Moritz College of Law.

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What DI has documented

DI has documented statements by Delaney Marsco on 2026 Midterm Elections, Government Ethics, and Law Enforcement. Read the quotations, original sources and related cases below.

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Statements by Delaney Marsco

Delaney Marsco

Role at the time: Director of ethics, Campaign Legal Center

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Response to this claim

The FBI's video is prohibited political activity under the Hatch Act because it advocates against the election of the candidates it names.

“It shouldn’t shock anyone that this is not compliant with the Hatch Act.”
Open source (opens in a new tab)FBI post featuring El-Sayed runs afoul of Hatch Act, experts say · The HillFull article
Why we used this label

The reference point is the FBI's October 6, 2026, video and post naming Democratic officials and candidates as the "defund the police crowd" while praising Director Kash Patel. Marsco, an ethics lawyer, says the video does not comply with the Hatch Act.

Read statementFBI posts, then deletes, a video calling Democrats the 'defund the police crowd'; watchdogs say it violated the Hatch Act

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