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Michael Coen

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Michael Coen is an emergency management adviser and former chief of staff at the Federal Emergency Management Agency. He served in FEMA leadership during the Obama and Biden administrations and has worked on disaster response, recovery and homeland security policy.

Also known as Michael A. Coen Jr., Michael Coen Jr.Website (opens in a new tab)

What DI has documented

DI has documented statements by Michael Coen on Government Ethics, Immigration Policy, and U.S. Politics. Read the quotations, original sources and related cases below.

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Statements by Michael Coen

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Michael Coen

Role at the time: Former FEMA chief of staff in the Obama and Biden administrations

Condemned

Statement summary

Michael Coen welcomes the ruling and condemns defaming federal employees to promote false conspiracy claims.

“This is a victory for all federal employees. No federal employee should be defamed to advance false conspiracies of the Trump administration,”
Open the original interview (opens in a new tab)Michael Coen on the accusations against Mary ComansMichael Coen interview quotation
Why we used this label

Coen condemns the accusations against Comans as defamation serving false conspiracies.

Read statementJudge clears former FEMA CFO Mary Comans, rules officials' 2025 accusations were false

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